Today in history

[unloadonme]

25 October 1154 - Death of King Stephen of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England

 

[gsdx]

25 October 1154 - Death of King Stephen of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England

Is he of 'On the feast of' fame?

 

[LandSome80]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2009_Baghdad_bombings

 

[unloadonme]

Is he of 'On the feast of' fame?

I'm afraid not. The Feast of Stephen (on 26 December) refers to Saint Stephen.

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

 

[gsdx]

^ Thanks. I should have known that.

 

[Outlooker]

October 26, 1965: John, Paul, George and Ringo were made members of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. (This event was not universally applauded. Several prior recipients of the OBE were enraged that "rock and roll" musicians would be so honored. One was Col. Frederick Wagg, who returned his 12 military medals, saying, "Decorating the Beatles has made a mockery of everything this country stands for. I've heard them sing and play, and I think they're terrible.")

 

[Kulindahr]

October 26, 899: Alfred the Great, ruler of Wessex, England since 871, dies. His defeat of the Danes ensured Christianity's survival in England, but he is also known for his ecclesiastical reforms and his desire to revive learning in his country.

 

[Outlooker]

October 27, 1858: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is born.



33rd Governor of New York, 25th Vice President of the United States, 26th President of the United States.

 

[rareboy]

2017

Catalonia's parliament voted to declare the region independent from Spain, resulting in the central government's dismissing that legislative body and calling for new elections, in which the majority of seats were claimed by the pro-independence movement.

 

[unloadonme]

October 26, 899: Alfred the Great, ruler of Wessex, England since 871, dies. His defeat of the Danes ensured Christianity's survival in England, but he is also known for his ecclesiastical reforms and his desire to revive learning in his country.

... and for burning the cakes.

 

[Kulindahr]

625: The reign of Honorius I as pope begins. He was a believer in and teacher of monothelitism, the idea that Christ did not have a human will and a divine will but one merged one, a teaching later condemned as heresy at the Third Council of Constantinople in 680-681 (along with Honorius). This fact has been a major pain for those who believe in papal infallibility.

 

[Outlooker]

October 28, 1726: Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift publishes Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver. Swift wasn't credited as its author till years later. Now often considered a children's book, it is actually a work of scathing political satire--banned more than once in its early days. I re-read it a few years ago and realized what a powerful attack on government and society it really is.

 

[Kulindahr]

312: According to tradition, on this date the 32-year-old Roman emperor Constantine defeated Maxentius at Milvian Bridge. Before the battle, Constantine had seen the symbol of Jesus, chi-rho, in a vision, accompanied with the words "By this sign conquer." He is considered Rome's first Christian emperor

1958: The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is unexpectedly elected pope, taking the name John XXIII. Expected to be a mere caretaker in office, he became one of the Catholic church's most activist popes, convening the Second Vatican Council in 1962

 

[Outlooker]

October 29, 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded with an axe by order of King James I.

If he had lived another 300 years, he would have seen pipe tobacco and cigarettes named after him.

 

[Outlooker]

October 31,1941: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed after 14 years of work.

Flags and patriotic music, but certain negatives linger. First negative: the land on which it was built was sacred to native American tribes and was stolen from the Lakota people by the U.S. Government, which violated an 1868 treaty after gold was discovered on the land. Second negative: the immense sculpture was designed by Gutzon Borglum, who was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

[smokeshadow]

1864 - Nevada became the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation
1961 - the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin's tomb as part of the Soviet Union's "de-Stalinization" drive
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U. S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations
1998 - a genetic study was released suggesting that President Thomas Jefferson did in fact father at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings

 

[smokeshadow]

1478 - The Spanish Inquisition was established
1861 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln named Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of the Union armies, succeeding Lieutenant General Winfield Scott
1936 - in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berline
1949 - An Eastern Airlines DC-4 collided in midair with a Lockheed P-38 fighter plane near Washington National Airport, killing all 55 people onbaord the DC-4 and seriously injuring the pilot of the P-38
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D. C., in a failed attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Torresola mortally wounded White House police officer Leslie Coffelt, who killed Torresola with return fire. Secret Service agents wounded Collazo. The Trumans were residing the the Blair House during renovations to the White House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

1478 - The Spanish Inquisition was established

No one expects...

 

[Outlooker]

November 2, 1721: Peter I of Russia, having had several naval victories and various other successes, changed his title from Tsar to Emperor.

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If his head was that size, the rest of his body was so long he belonged in a freak show.

 

[rareboy]

1789

The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.