This Day In History – May 24
May 23, 2012 by Kristen
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1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901), was born.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1879 – H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co. (d. 1956) was born.
1937 – Roger Peterson, pilot who flew the plane on The Day the Music Died (d. 1959) was born.
1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian was born.
1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter was born.
1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and political activist was born.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1943 – Gary Burghoff, American was born.
1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1944 – Patti LaBelle, American R&B singer, songwriter and actress was born.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
1977 – Nixon has been interviewed on TV chat shows by David Frost and has defended the right that the President is within his rights to order phone tapping and burglaries if it is in the interests of public safety and has justified the use of these in the Watergate Scandal .
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
2010 – Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (b. 1972) died.
The Jack Blood Show – May 22 2012
Jack covers breaking news from www.deadlinelive.info – Including info on 911, Pearl Harbor, FaceBook, and The “Federal Reserve”. In Hour Two Liam Scheff (www.Liamscheff.com) joins the show to discuss his new book: “Official Stories Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need” – Subjects include: vaccinations, HIV Myths, Darwinism and others scientific BS floating as “Official Stories”.
China Warns Australia to Choose “Godfather” – China or U.S.
It is rare in diplomatic circles for governments to speak bluntly, particularly in the Orient, where manners are highly prized.
The exceptions to this rule are retired military officers, who are often able to voice sentiments too impolitic for other channels.
One of the more startling pronouncements in this vein occurred last week when Song Xiaojun, a former senior officer of the People’s Liberation Army, warned that Australia cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and China indefinitely and “Australia has to find a godfather sooner or later. Australia always has to depend on somebody else, whether it is to be the ‘son’ of the US or ‘son’ of China. (It) depends on who is more powerful, and based on the strategic environment.” Noting the rising importance of China as an export market Song added that Australia depended on exporting iron ore to China “to feed itself,” but “Frankly, it has not done well politically.”
What is also notable about Song’s remarks is that they coincided with Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s first official visit to China, where Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi urged Australia to dismiss its alliance with the United States, a decades-old bipartisan and central pillar of the nation’s foreign policy, as ”the time for Cold War alliances has passed.”
Chinese Advert Pre-Programming For WW3 + London 2012 Olympic Bomb??
What do you make of this folks? Here we have a Chinese advertisement for the upcoming UEFA 2012 soccer tournament to be held in Poland and Ukraine just next month.
However, on first watching this video, you will see it is set to a backdrop that can be only described at apocalyptic.
We see London, Paris and Rome burning. Bombs dropping. Nuclear devices going off in London.
And why do i tie this to the London Olympics? well there is no Chinese players at the European championships for obvious reasons, but there will be a Chinese soccer team at the London Olympics
Study: 9/11 WTC dust sickened residents years later
Several years after dust from the World Trade Center twin towers found its way into thousands of homes and nearly every crevice in lower Manhattan, area residents still suffered health problems, according to a new study.
People living in homes damaged after 2001′s Trade Center attacks were more likely to report respiratory illness or disease years later, when compared with people whose homes were not damaged, according to a recent analysis of World Trade Center Health Registry data.
Hawaii sends Arizona verification of Obama’s birth
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett said Tuesday night that he has received information from Hawaii that proves President Obama’s American birth and satisfies Arizona’s requirements for having the president on the upcoming election ballot.
A Hawaii official sent Bennett’s office verification of birth for President Obama on Tuesday, according to both Bennett and Hawaii officials.
Bennett said the issue is now resolved from his point of view. He has cancelled a planned Wednesday news conference where he was expected to discuss the issue.
Attorney Of US Soldier Accused Of Mass Murder In Afghanistan Say He’s Seen Zero Evidence Of Massacre
Pakistani doctor who helped find Bin Laden gets 33 years in prison
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts was convicted of treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a decision that is likely to further erode Washington’s fragile relations with Islamabad.
The U.S. has been seeking the release of Shakeel Afridi ever since his arrest by Pakistani authorities after the secret U.S. commando raid that killed the Al Qaeda leader in his compound in the military city of Abbottabad a year ago. In January, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that Afridi had provided intelligence that assisted the raid and criticized Pakistan’s arrest of someone involved in helping track down the world’s most wanted man.
From the start, however, Pakistani authorities have regarded Afridi as a traitor and have ignored Washington’s calls for his release. He was tried in a tribal court in the Khyber region along the Afghan border, where he once was designated the chief surgeon.
Under Pakistani law, he could have been given the death penalty. In addition to the 33-year term, Afridi was also fined about $3,500.
Inventor Of Wireless TV Remote Eugene Polley Dies At 96
This Day In History – May 23
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839), died.
1940 – “I’ll Never Smile Again” was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers. The song was the first #1 hit on the weekly Billboard Best Selling Singles chart. Since then, it has been a popular standard for many artists in a variety of genres.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
