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[Red Devil]

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

Beginning of the end for america

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

Beginning of the end for america

Particularly for her
poor husband (82)...recently convicted of drunk driving Napa after a collision; and then brutally head-hammered by a burglar/intruder looking for Nancy in his San Francisco home!

[Jimbuna]

1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated.

1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)

1919 Left-wing Spartacus organization instigates a revolt in Berlin; terrified by the spread of Bolshevism, German troops brutally suppress the uprising.

1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak.

1976 In retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus in County Armagh.

1981 Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver confesses that he is the "Yorkshire Ripper" and murdered 13 women.

[Jimbuna]

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address.

2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence.

[Jimbuna]

1915 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed.

1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1999 President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

[Jimbuna]

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1941 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral"

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral"

Indeed Sir, admirably spoken. Kismet is Arabian for FATE!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral"

Here's me thinking for all those years he said "Kiss me Hardy"

[Red Devil]

Incidentally, a Vet of the Royal Navy from WW2 told me that they were all issued with pussers rum, and gave me a sample. "Warms one cockles" as a brit saying goes (Well, actually "Warms the cockles of your heart")

Pussers is not cheap but well worth it. The last bottle I have was Pussers Gunpowder Rum!

[Red Devil]

9th January 1963 Charlie Watts joined the Rolling Stones.
9th January 1941 Meat ration for a week was 1/2d (One shilling and two pennies) reduced from 1/6d.
9th January 2023 UKs first rocket launch from Cornwall is called Start Me Up, after the song by the Rolling Stones.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Me

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral"

Originally Posted by Red Devil

Indeed Sir, admirably spoken. Kismet is Arabian for FATE!

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Here's me thinking for all those years he said "Kiss me Hardy"

And you'd be correct:

Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, died at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805. He was hit by a musket ball, fired from a French ship, at about 1.15pm and died below decks at about 4.30pm. His body was preserved in a barrel of brandy.

The details are relevant in attempting to authenticate whether Nelson ever spoke those words. The best argument in support of it being authentic is the fact that the events surrounding Nelson's death were witnessed by several people at close quarters, all of whom would have had intense interest in it.

There are at least three eye-witness accounts recording that Nelson asked Hardy to kiss him. The precise words said aren't recorded verbatim, but "kiss me Hardy" can't have differed in any material way from reality.

Death of NelsonThe witnesses, William Beatty, Chaplain Alexander Scott and Walter Burke are shown in Arthur Devis's painting Death of Nelson. As a consequence of Nelson's importance as a historical and heroic figure, there are many Death of Nelson paintings. Devis had the advantage over other painters of being present on the Victory for the event though and we can be assured that his painting is an accurate representation of Nelson's death.
According to the contemporary accounts, Nelson last words were:
"Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady Hamilton". He paused then said very faintly, "Kiss me, Hardy". This, Hardy did, on the cheek. Nelson then said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty". The later story, that Nelson's last words were "Kismet [fate] Hardy", aren't supported by any contemporary evidence. In fact, 'kismet' isn't recorded as being in use in English to mean fate until as late as 1830, a quarter of a century after Nelson died. That euphemistic version of events is thought to be a later invention that attempted to avoid embarrassment by covering up the supposed homo-erotic imagery of men kissing. That was misguided in more ways than one, not least because platonic kisses between men at times of great emotion weren't viewed in the way in 19th century England.

AND this settles the argument: Sometimes Art and life are intertwined: "Dream couple", Olivier and Leigh, were newlyweds for this
flick!

[Red Devil]

No, it wasn't in common english use BUT - Nelson had spent many campaigns in and around Egypt and, like me in Germany, picked up loads of local lingo. Sailors had many words which meant much at sea and sod all on land. The word fate, in Egypt, was much used.

[Jimbuna]

1839 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate]

1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.

1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London.

1946 US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey.

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.

1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.

Supposedly supplanted by NATO "guarantees of security" which are currently resulting in the commencement of WWIII. The challenge to the WWII created 'world order' NATO domination being challenged by the communist led ''new world order'. We need to re-nuclearize Ukraine and Taiwan and re-establish the 20th century's MAD doctrine which is only thing "snatch-and-grab' failed-states Russia and China (Tibet 1950 & Crimea 2014 )seem to comprehend!!? As both snatch-grabbers are dealing in nostalgia; one creating the Peter-the-Great/Stalinist empire and the other some form of the Chinese/Mongol empire, we need to revamp the nuclear genii unleashed in 1945...a little big-bang nostalgia of our own... to 'keep the peace' before civilization falls to pieces...estimated to occur by 2040... DPRK's Kim Jung Un, having observed the fiasco of Ukrainian denuclearization, is not making the same mistake twice. Methinks he'll not act till fellow commie, 'Master Xi', allows him to...