NationStates Jolt Archive

Today, a certain number of years ago, something happened that had a gigantic effect on the world. Can anyone tell me what it was?

One of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_May

The first Penguin was hatched? Mind you, that did indeed happen some years ago...

Anyway: Woot! :D

One of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_May
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Generations of males bored to tears.

1980 - The Communist Party of Togo is founded

That has to be it.

Today, a certain number of years ago, something happened that had a gigantic effect on the world. Can anyone tell me what it was?
According to wiki, the Communist Party of Togo was formed. I think you must be referring to that.

Edit: Bugger. Too slow.

Today, a certain number of years ago, something happened that had a gigantic effect on the world. Can anyone tell me what it was?
Not your birthday by any chance? ;)

Not your birthday by any chance? ;)Nah, that was Sunday.

Nah, that was Sunday.
Ah well, happy birthday anyway!

Its the anniversary of Machievelli's birth! What a nutcase he was....

Not your birthday by any chance? ;)
You mean he's the first Penguin?? :eek:

According to wiki, the Communist Party of Togo was formed. I think you must be referring to that.

Edit: Bugger. Too slow.

pwned!

1791 - Polish Constitution
1947 - New Constitution in Japan

Its the anniversary of Machievelli's birth! What a nutcase he was....

Mmm the great political philosopher to live.

Its my BERFDAY!!!

Also I think Berlin fell today in 1945.

Also I think Berlin fell today in 1945.
Hitler killed himself on 30 April, Goebbels on 1 May... but the city was surrendered on 2 May by the general in charge, and the Battle of Berlin didn't end until 8 May I think D:...

Hitler killed himself on 30 April, Goebbels on 1 May... but the city was surrendered on 2 May by the general in charge, and the Battle of Berlin didn't end until 8 May I think D:...

VE Day being celebrated in the West on the 8th of May, but victory in the Great Patriotic War being celebrated on the 9th by the former-USSR and satellite states.

Nah, that was Sunday.
Hope you had a good one. :)

I'd say that on May 3rd 1010 years ago the first German became Pope, namely George V. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/papst.gif

Exactly 15.2 billion years ago today, the Big Bang occurred.

The 35th aniversary of All things considered...on NPR :D

Israeli independence day?

Israeli independence day?


I think that is like 15th or something...idk though

I think that is like 15th or something...idk though
Evidently not according to the first google result I got.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-03-voa31.cfm

* 1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.
* 1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
* 1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
* 1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
* 1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
* 1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
* 1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
* 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
* 1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
* 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
* 1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
* 1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
* 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
* 1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
* 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S Truman.
* 1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
* 1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
* 1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
* 1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
* 1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
* 1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
* 1974 - The Portuguese Democratic Labour Party is founded in Portugal.
* 1980 - The Communist Party of Togo is founded.
* 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
* 1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina and the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".
* 1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
* 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
* 2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
* 2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

To quote Wiki... erm one of those! ^ :p I cheated..

To quote Wiki... erm one of those! ^ :p I cheated..
Why does "your" Wiki only start after North America has been discovered? It's not like you don't share world's history up till then!

1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
The Deutschland was a hospital ship and not a prison ship.