On this day in history

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

On the 6th December 1865, the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified!

The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the USA.

Those cotton farms won't pick themselves, now get back to work

[marty351]

Yes Boss!

[jaydee]

December 7, 1941—a date that will live in infamy

[oldel]

Originally Posted by jaydee

December 7, 1941—a date that will live in infamy

I've read a tiny bit about that. Apparently if the carriers get sunk it's going to be no big deal and Japan gets to keep all of Asia. The USA doesn't have an appetite for a large army or for war overseas.

[LG17]

Bill Wyman becomes a Rolling Stone in '62.

[slowsnake]

On 7th December 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 are the last manned mission to go to the moon when they lift off at Cape Canaveral....

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

On this day in 2009, my father passed away after a 4-year battle with cancer. His birthday was just 3 days prior, and whilst heavily medicated would wake up and ask what day it was, as all he wanted to do at that stage was make his 63rd birthday.

[slowsnake]

I was thinking about my dad the other day, I realised I have known him as a dead father longer than I knew him as a living breathing father, sounds weird eh, but that's what I was thinking about, he died when I was nearly 33 yrs old, he was 63, I am now nearly 69 yrs old, and I can't wait to meet him again, soon I hope!..

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

I was thinking about my dad the other day, I realised I have known him as a dead father longer than I knew him as a living breathing father, sounds weird eh, but that's what I was thinking about, he died when I was nearly 33 yrs old, he was 63, I am now nearly 69 yrs old, and I can't wait to meet him again, soon I hope!..

Hard to like a post when you finish it like that, Billy. We're only on this earth for a limited amount of time, mate. Make the most of it!

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

Hard to like a post when you finish it like that, Billy. We're only on this earth for a limited amount of time, mate. Make the most of it!

I do make the most of it Sky Pilot, I have lived more in this one incarnation than most do in 10 incarnations!

Karma and reincarnation are my core beliefs and all my values about things are based on karma, I like karma, I like the whole idea of karma, we reap what we sow, too true as well.
I don't like this idea folk have as karma being a tool of retribution, that's missing the whole point of life, but karma is the cause of all pain and suffering in/on this Earth, I like it, its very fair, its foolproof and even, it's the great leveller!

Just my personal thoughts!......

[slowsnake]

On 8th December 1980 in New York, John Lennon was assassinated, he was shot in the foyer of the Dakota Building...RIP.

[slowsnake]

On the 8th December 1980, in Louth NSW, my friend and ex-employer Tolek Witold Ostaszewski and his friend and mine Henry Tschevich died when their car and caravan where decimated by a semi trailer in a head on collision, the semi driver lived!.....but told police they were on the wrong side of the road, not him?

No witnesses!

[LG17]

The Melbourne Olympics ended in '56.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

On 8th December 1980 in New York, John Lennon was assassinated, he was shot in the foyer of the Dakota Building...RIP.

Don't you hate it when you get hit there! I mean, anywhere else is fine, but not in the foyer!

Soz, I'll crawl back into my dark, dingy cave....

[slowsnake]

On this day in history on 8th December 1659, a Mexican border Town is founded by Fray Garcia de San Francisco, wonder if he envisioned what is there now!........

[slowsnake]

On the 9th December 1990, Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct Presidential election in a landslide vote!
He led Poland's first Independent Trade Union and also was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace!

[Tonz]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

On the 6th December 1865, the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified!

The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the USA.

supposedly.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Tonz

supposedly.

The civil war was about the abolition of slavery, not the North hating the South, it was about a man's right to own another human being
They call it "trafficking" nowadays!

[jaydee]

I think what Tonz meant by "supposedly"was that it was supposed to abolish slavery, but did it?

[slowsnake]

On this day in the year 1520, Martin Luther publicly burns the Papal edict that he recant, he had criticised the Catholic Church for the selling of "indulgences" or actions performed to reduce sin!



Yer right...

[slowsnake]

On this day in history, Edward V111 abdicates the British throne....

[LG17]

Today, Mike Nesmith (The Monkees) passed away in the USA.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqeSJlgaNk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AweItvbPmBQ

[slowsnake]

Yeh just watched on ABC news, Ch 24, well he had an easy life laid out in front of him and I hope he dident abuse his body too much.
His mother invented the Post It note apparently, will check that.

[ford71V8]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Yeh just watched on ABC news, Ch 24, well he had an easy life laid out in front of him and I hope he dident abuse his body too much.
His mother invented the Post It note apparently, will check that.

I thought she invented Liquid Paper?

[LG17]

Ford71V8 is correct - liquid paper.

[LG17]

Jack Brabham wins his first world F1 championship on Dec 12 1959 .

[slowsnake]

Yep did check my Mike Nesmith post, and it was liquid paper not posi it, even though I wasn't sure, I knew other posters would correct me, some with glee!.....

[slowsnake]

Jack Brabham eh, what a legend he was, his sons never came near their great father, they tried but couldn't emulate him, or, achieve the heights of fame that Jack reached!

[slowsnake]

On 12th December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal, the "letter S" in Morse code at Signal Hill, St Johns, Newfoundland!........

[slowsnake]

On the 13th December 1920, the League of Nations establishes the International Court of Justice in The Hague!