History postslu... er Game - Page 2

Ensign Steve · #26 02-21-2005, 05:13 PM

Okay, but what do you define as devious cheating? In your OP you said "Google and Wikipedia are your friends" and I totally cited my source. I hope you don't think that I cheated.

Dingfod · #27 02-21-2005, 11:12 PM

165 B.C. Judas Maccabeus defeats the rulers of Palestine in the Battle of Beth Zur, leading to the recapture of Jerusalem. Israelis took control of Jerusalem in 1967.

Celsus · #28 02-22-2005, 12:49 AM

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Okay, but what do you define as devious cheating? In your OP you said "Google and Wikipedia are your friends" and I totally cited my source. I hope you don't think that I cheated.

Don't worry, I was just kidding. Now if I were to mention the Six Day War in reply to Warrenly (in which Jerusalem was captured), that would be cheating, just like what I did when I mentioned the death of the Qin emperor since Liv was talking about the teracotta warriors buried in his tomb. Naturally I suck at my own game.

1967 was the year the Congo uprising began, led by Belgian mercenaries fighting against Belgian troops. King Leopold of Belgium was the one who originally began the "scrable for Africa" by organising a conference to open up its interior in 1876.

livius drusus · #29 02-22-2005, 01:21 AM

In 1876 the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho beat the living shit out of Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn. The US army got them back fourteen years later by killing hundreds of Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee.

The Lone Ranger · #30 02-22-2005, 01:50 AM

In 1890 Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide. Don McLean's song "Vincent" ("Starry, Starry Night") reached Number One in 1972.

Celsus · #31 02-22-2005, 07:57 AM

The Munich Olympics were held in 1972, where a group of Palestinian terrorists killed the 11 Israeli athletes being held hostage after a rescue plan broke. Israeli-Palestinian tensions can be traced back to at least the period following the First World War, when the Balfour Declaration allowed Jews to begin returning to Palestine in 1917

Dingfod · #32 02-22-2005, 01:39 PM

November 1917, Russia got the first communist government led by Vladimir Lenin (not his real name), starting an era that ended with the last communist leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985.

livius drusus · #33 02-24-2005, 08:07 PM

In 1985, one Alexey Pajitnov wrote a few silly lines of code and called it Tetris. Naturally it was owned by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, so he never saw a shiny red cent for his enormous genius, but was driven into the spindly arms of the ultimate in capitalist pigdog technology: Bill Gates of Microsoft.

Speaking of whom, in 1976 he for the first but oh so not the last time publically stated that people stealing his programs were inhibiting good software from being written.

Crumb · #34 02-25-2005, 05:21 AM

In 1976 I was born! On a related note in 1973 my older sister was born, exactly 3 years and 4 days before I would be.

The Lone Ranger · #35 02-25-2005, 07:01 AM

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Speaking of whom, in 1976 he for the first but oh so not the last time publically stated that people stealing his programs were inhibiting good software from being written.

Pretty ironic, considering that an excellent case can be made that practically everything Microsoft has put out was stolen from somebody else.

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In 1976 I was born! On a related note in 1973 my older sister was born, exactly 3 years and 4 days before I would be.

In 1973 Theodosius Dobzhansky published his famous essay Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution. Darwin published the Origin of Species in 1859.

Dingfod · #36 02-25-2005, 12:25 PM

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xouper · #37 02-25-2005, 12:26 PM

In 1859, Bernhard Riemann published his famous Hypothesis about the zeta function, which remains the most celebrated and studied problem in mathematics to this day. A relationship between the zeta function and the value of Pi was proven in 1735 by Leonard Euler, when he published his solution to the Basel Problem.

Celsus · #38 02-25-2005, 01:09 PM

Carolus Linnaeus published his Systema Naturae in 1735. This ordering of biological species was a necessary component for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as expounded in The Origin of Species... which was preceded by Alfred Russell Wallace's publication On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species in 1855.

xouper · #39 02-28-2005, 11:34 AM

Astronomer Percival Lowell was born in 1855. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. He was convinced there were canals on Mars. He died in 1916.

Dingfod · #40 02-28-2005, 12:42 PM

Allied forces withdrew from Gallipoli in 1916. Mel Gibson was in Gallipoli, the 1981 movie about that battle.

Shaguar · #41 03-01-2005, 11:55 AM

1981 Ronald Reagan became the fortieth president of the USA, according to some he was to win the cold war single handed thereby easing the worlds fears of nuclear obliteration, he was born in 1911 the same year that radioactive babe Marie Curie won the Nobel prize for chemistry

Celsus · #42 03-01-2005, 02:59 PM

In 1911, Sun Yat-Sen became president of China, leading a nationalist party that was to hold on to power till the Communists sent them packing to Taiwan in 1949

Dingfod · #43 03-01-2005, 05:09 PM

In 1949 the Tucker Automobile Corporation was shut down by bankruptcy, ending production having only produced 51 of the very innovative automobile designed by Preston Tucker, born 1903.

Crumb · #44 03-01-2005, 05:34 PM

January 1, 1903 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India. On the 15th of August, 1947, India became completely independent.

Dingfod · #45 03-01-2005, 08:31 PM

August 7, 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. Thor Heyerdahl made a similar voyage in a papyrus barge, Ra II, sailing from Safi, Morocco to Barbados in 1970.

viscousmemories · #46 03-03-2005, 06:14 AM

1970 saw the launch of the 'routine' space flight of Apollo 13, resulting in the popularization of the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem."

Ron Howard directed a star-studded cast (including Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon and Gary Sinise) in Apollo 13, the 1995 film on the subject.

Dingfod · #47 03-03-2005, 02:39 PM

In January 1995, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake does tremendous damage in Kobe, Japan. Almost a decade later, a large earthquake off Sumatra triggers a tsunami that devastates coastal areas all around the eastern Indian Ocean, 2004.

viscousmemories · #48 03-04-2005, 05:28 AM

In 2004, the Freethought Forum was born! One of the co-founders, viscousmemories, was born 36 years earlier in 1968.

xouper · #49 03-04-2005, 05:50 AM

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon. This is what astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders saw first-hand:

Image courtesy of http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Lovell went on to command Apollo 13.

The astronauts of Apollo 1 -- Edward White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee -- died on the launch pad when their spacecraft caught fire, January 1967.

viscousmemories · #50 03-04-2005, 10:11 PM

1967 saw the death of the Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara. Che made Time magazine's 100 Most Important People in the 20th Century, and graced the magazine's cover in 1960.