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1810: King George III celebrates his 50th anniversary as monarch of Great Britain.

The word Alchemy comes from the ancient name of Egypt.

Football Association Formed (1863)
The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of football in England and is the oldest football organization in the world. The FA played a leading role in establishing rules for the modern game, and it has a special place in the hearts of many soccer historians and fans worldwide.

Despite the fact that king Charles XII himself had brought coffee to Sweden around 1715, coffee was regulated or totally banned to and fro until 1822. The penalty for coffee-drinking could be jail. The reason it was forbidden was that it was considered poisonous and unpatriotic and also that the government, of course, wanted to get taxes and fees from it.

To find out wether coffee really was so dangerous that it was supposed to be, the following experiment was performed: Two twin brothers sentenced to death for murder, got their penalty changed into life time in prison, if one of them drank one cup of coffee and the other one cup of tea every day. The coffee drinking twin outlived his tea drinking brother. After this, coffee was totally free and has been so except for during the WWs.

At the same time opium was totally free to buy in the pharmacies if one could afford it...

On Oct. 26, 1881, the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.

Staten Island was once inhabited by the Algonquian.

In 1774, the First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.

Maine got its name from the simple fact that it was the first part of North America that was usually seen from sea when colonists arrived, the mainland.

Many states in the USA have misdrawn borders, since the instruments used to draw them weren't really reliable before 1860.

In 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

When the United States got independent and the part of what would become eastern Canada remained British, the new boundary cut some counties in halves. It can still be seen today as some New England county boundaries "extend" into Canada and vice versa.

There's my argument: Invade Canada ! !!

(I like to watch Curling, it's weird.)


Amelia Earhart wrote a letter to her fiance and let him know she believed in "Open Marriage."

Hmmmm.

In 1942, the U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War II.

The USS Indianapolis was sunk July 30, 1945. Indianapolis was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action in World War II.

In 1957, the Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.

The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday December 6, 1917, at 9:04:35 a.m. local time in the Halifax Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Canada, when the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc bound for World War I France, collided near Pier 6 with the Norwegian ship The Imo chartered to carry Belgian relief supplies. In the aftermath of the collision, Mont-Blanc caught fire and exploded, killing about 2,000 people and injuring thousands more. The explosion caused a tsunami, and a pressure wave of air that snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, and carried fragments for kilometres.