On this day in history

[slowsnake]

On this day in history, December the 1st 1955, in violation of segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
Black African American woman Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
This act of defience sparked a 381 day bus boycott which was led by Dr Martin Luther King jnr.

Rosa Parks selfless and dangerous act started the then current Civil Rights Movement!.......what a legend!....

[slowsnake]

Please feel free to add to this thread!
I just come across the original post and thought it may help older members stuck at home, see what happened in the past, anything historic

[DJR-351]

Ok, how about on this day in history, December 1st 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes.....

[Citroënbender]

Sharp dresser for an assembly line worker!

[wodahs]

1 Dec 1938: Jewish refugees accepted

Australia agreed to take 15,000 Jewish refugees fleeing from Europe after the German occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-colle...lyons/timeline

and

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

https://www.yellowad.co.uk/it-happen...ry-december-1/

and in three days years back a great person was born

[LG17]

Pablo Escobar was born in '49.

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by LG17

Pablo Escobar was born in '49.

And today is?

[LG17]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

And today is?

December 1, the day it was posted.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by LG17

December 1, the day it was posted.

I think what DJR may have been prompting is that on this day in 1993, Escobar died.

In other 'On This Day' news:

In 1927, the 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385.

[slowsnake]

2nd December 1961......on this day in history, Fidel Castro declared on a National Radio Broadcast, that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba would become a Communist Country.

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

I think what DJR may have been prompting is that on this day in 1993, Escobar died.

Thats it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar

[LG17]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Thats it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar

Well blow me down. I didn't know that.

[mondeomatureguy]

Hi Guys,
On this day 22nd of November 1963 President John F Kennedy is assassinated.
JFKs Ford Lincoln Continental was leased from the Ford Motor Company for $500 dollars a year.
His car as not bullet proof and the clear plastic bubble roof they had for the car on rainy days was also not bullet proof.

Go forward to when Lyndon b Johnson came to Australia in 1966 using the same car that JFK had used.
It was now bulletproof and had a bulletproof roof and repainted . There were Vietnam War protests on and there was bags of red and green paint thrown at the Presidential limousine.

They couldnt remove the paint so the Presidential Limousine was taken to the Broadmeadows Ford factory and repainted.

[DJR-351]

December 2, 1942

The Atomic Age began at 3:36 p.m. on Dec. 2, 1942; quietly, in secrecy, on a squash court, under the west stands of old Stagg Field, at the University of Chicago.

Chicago Pile-1 was the world’s first nuclear reactor to go critical.

Scientists, led by Enrico Fermi, and in collaboration with Leó Szilárd, conducted the world's first controlled, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction. That initial chain reaction was too weak to power even a single light bulb.

Chicago Pile Number One [CP-1], consisted of 40,000 graphite blocks, that enclosed 19,000 pieces of uranium metal and uranium oxide fuel. The scientists of what was then called the Metallurgical Laboratory, or “Met Lab,” had arranged the graphite in layers within a 20 x 6 x 25 foot wooden framework.

Cadmium [an excellent neutron absorber] control rods were interspersed throughout the uranium-graphite pile. Withdrawing the rods would increase neutron activity in the pile, leading to a self-sustaining chain reaction. Re-inserting the rods would dampen the reaction. At every step of the process Fermi calculated the expected neutron emission, and slowly removed a control rod to confirm his expectations. As a safety mechanism, the control rods could quickly be inserted, if something started going wrong, to shut down the chain reaction.

A single random neutron was enough to start the chain reaction process, once the physicists assembled CP-1. The first neutron would induce fission on a uranium nucleus, emitting a set of new neutrons. These secondary neutrons hit carbon nuclei in the graphite, and slowed down. Then they’d run into other uranium nuclei, and induce a second round of fission reactions, emit even more neutrons, and on and on.

Upon successful completion of the experiment, a coded message was transmitted to President Roosevelt: “The Italian navigator has landed in the new world.”

Their experiment was a key step in the Manhattan Project. to develop the atomic bomb, during World War II.

https://www.atomicarchive.com/histor...stpile_01.html

[Loonar]

Today, the 3rd Dec., is the 167th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade..

[slowsnake]

On this day in history 3rd December 1967, South African heart Surgeon Dr Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant on a human being, 54 year old Louis Washkansky lived for 18 days, he died from pneumonia, after his body rejected the new heart.

[LG17]

In 1966 The Monkees played their first concert.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

John Michael Osbourne was born on this day in 1948.

\m/

[Citroënbender]

Now I’ve got a Paranoid earworm.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Dammit, now so do I!

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Now I’ve got a Paranoid earworm.

Mmmm, I got "War Pigs"

I still got their first album, self titled, the UK version.

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

On this day in history 3rd December 1967, South African heart Surgeon Dr Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant on a human being, 54 year old Louis Washkansky lived for 18 days, he died from pneumonia, after his body rejected the new heart.

was also on this day 3rd dec 1689 that officially
the first successful separation of conjoined twins , Elisabet and Catherina happened
On 3 December, the connection between the twins was severed and the stumps of the join dressed and treated. The twins were reportedly fully healed and feeding normally within two weeks.

the 3rd 1979 also saw 11 members of the audience trampled to death during a stampede to claim unreserved seats for a concert by The Who at The Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio

and apparently also on the 3rd 1927 the first Laurel & Hardy movie putting on pants released
Although they had appeared in several films together at this point, Stan Laurel considered this the first official Laurel and Hardy film

[slowsnake]

On this day in history, 4th December, year unknown?....wodah's was born ....

[slowsnake]

On this day in history, 4th December 1980, rock band Led Zeppelin disband after the death of their drummer John Bonham....

[LG17]

Roy Orbison played his last concert.
He died 2 days later in -88.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

On this day in history, 4th December, year unknown?....wodah's was born ....

1968, Billy. If you go to the front page for the forum and scroll down to the very bottom, it list members whose birthday it is today. The brackets shows the member's age.

Itsme was born on this day in 1956.

And I don't mean any offence to those two, but most importantly for me, my old man was born on this day in 1945. Happy birthday old man. I miss you.

[slowsnake]

On December 5th 1933, prohibition ended in the United States of America when the 21st amendment to the US Constitution was ratified and the 18th amendment repealed!

[LG17]

1969 Appple release the first non-Beatles song to be a hit. Badfingers 'Come and Get It.'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU

[LG17]

London was the first city in the world to have official taxis.
Dec 6 1897

[slowsnake]

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

The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the USA.