History of All Kinds

[NorthBrit]

25TH SEPTEMBER
1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeats invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who are both killed.

The English Army then had to dash south as the French were about to invade.
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1237 Treaty of York is signed between Kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, establishing a boundary between the two countries that remains mostly unchanged in modern times

 

[NorthBrit]

26TH SEPTEMBER
1687 The Acropolis in Athens is attacked by the Venetian army in an attempt to expel the Turks, damaging the Parthenon
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1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins in western France, the largest and most costly American offensive of World War I, with more than 1 million US soldiers participating

 

[migalyto]

Sept 26, 1949

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign is torn down, and reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood.

 

[Kusojiji]

I thought the old sign burned or something.

 

[bnsf971]

I thought the old sign burned or something.

The Original Hollywood Sign's History Isn't All That Romantic

The history of the Hollywood landmark is actually kinda corporate.

www.refinery29.com

 

[Jaz avalley]

26TH SEPTEMBER
1687 The Acropolis in Athens is attacked by the Venetian army in an attempt to expel the Turks, damaging the Parthenon
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1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins in western France, the largest and most costly American offensive of World War I, with more than 1 million US soldiers participating

When my dad was in Italy during the Second World War he wrote my mum and mentioned that they past through Cassino and it was levelled!
my mum responded and point outed they were Roman ruins. Wiggles eye brows.

Edit ah oh is a off topic comment ok?

 

[NorthBrit]

27TH SEPTEMBER
1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to invade England
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1779 John Adams is appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

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[migalyto]

Sept 27, 1908

Henry Fords first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan

 

[Kusojiji]

I think a 426 hemi would be nice in that.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

You guys should be ashamed of yourselfes, especially you British citizens, how could you forget https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A7m9yymaU/
200 years anniversary of opening the first ever public railroad.

 

[NorthBrit]

28TH SEPTEMBER

1887 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history

 

[Jaz avalley]

28TH SEPTEMBER

1887 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history

That’s more people than in some countries!

 

[Bruette]

You guys should be ashamed of yourselfes, especially you British citizens, how could you forget https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A7m9yymaU/
200 years anniversary of opening the first ever public railroad.

What are you, the school master? But you got us, how could we miss that!

September 27, 1825: The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened, connecting places, people, communities, and ideas and transforming the world.

About Railway 200

2025 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway. Britain and the world changed forever. Railway 200 celebrates the past, present and future of rail.

railway200.co.uk

God willing, we will not miss the 200th anniversary of American railroading!

May 14, 2025 | B&O Railroad Museum

The B&O Railroad Museum Celebrates 200th Anniversary of American Railroading with Campus Transformation Plan Groundbreaking CSX Lead Corporate Gift Baltimore, MD – May 14, 2025- The B&O Railroad Museum, the birthplace of American railroading, will mark a milestone in its history on Wednesday...

www.borail.org

 

[migalyto]

Sept 28, 1781

The Siege of Yorktown began, eventually leading on October 19 to the British surrender by General Lord Cornwallis and the end of the American Revelation.

Reveloution.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

What are you, the school master? But you got us, how could we miss that!

September 27, 1825: The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened, connecting places, people, communities, and ideas and transforming the world.

About Railway 200

2025 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway. Britain and the world changed forever. Railway 200 celebrates the past, present and future of rail.

railway200.co.uk

God willing, we will not miss the 200th anniversary of American railroading!

May 14, 2025 | B&O Railroad Museum

The B&O Railroad Museum Celebrates 200th Anniversary of American Railroading with Campus Transformation Plan Groundbreaking CSX Lead Corporate Gift Baltimore, MD – May 14, 2025- The B&O Railroad Museum, the birthplace of American railroading, will mark a milestone in its history on Wednesday...

www.borail.org

Ha ha

 

[NorthBrit]

29TH SEPTEMBER
I shall leave the easy ones we already know.

522 BC Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his position as king of the Persian Empire

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480 BC Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I

(Wonderful things I learned at University. I knew one day it would come useful. )

 

[migalyto]

Sept 29, 1988

Discovery was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking a resumption of NASA's space shuttle program, which had been suspended following the Challenger explosion in 1986.

 

[NorthBrit]

30TH SEPTEMBER

1862 Minister-President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck delivers his famous "Blood and Iron" speech on the unification of German territories

 

[migalyto]

Sept 30, 1954

The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy..

 

[bnsf971]

Sept 27, 1908

Henry Fords first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan

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One of those bits of trivia:
Model Ts came equipped with Dodge transmissions. Henry Ford borrowed money from the Dodge brothers to help fund the startup of his venture. Henry had poor credit at the time, and one of the ways the Dodges kept track of his sales, and how much money he should be repaying them, was to simply count the number of transmissions they supplied to Ford.