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In this game, post any event that has happened or did happened today. For example, birthdays, deaths, importants points in history, etc. These events could be dealing with celebrities, countries, important figures in history, or yourself. And post the year the event happened next to it.

I'll start, on April 25...
- Italy was liberated from Nazism - 1945
- Al Pacino was born - 1940
- The Hubble Telescope was deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery into orbit - 1990

gimme a week and I'll post on this thread.

On April 25: (more)
-British and French engineers broke ground on the Suez Canal (1859)
-The United States declares war on Spain (1898)
-New York becomes the first US state to require license plates on automobiles (1901)
-US and Soviet soldiers meet in Torbau, along the Elbe River, cutting the Germain Wermacht in two (1945); this is a milestone towards the Allied victory in Europe
-Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an "Integrated Circuit" (1961)
-Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit (1983)

From Wikipedia.

On April 25th:
Somebody laughed
Somebody cried
Someone was born
Somebody died

Someone got good news
Someone's news was bad
Someone bought new shoes
Somebody got mad

Someone quit their job
And they made a new friend
Somebody got fired
And had no money to spend

Somebody got cancer
It rained somewhere
A lot of things happened
(But) do you care?

Today is May day. . .

ok, so it's experiential May day.

From my beloved wikipedia:

International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886, when Chicago police fired on workers during a general strike for the eight hour day, killing a dozen demonstrators. In 1889, the first congress of the Second International, meeting in Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests. These were so successful that May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891. The May Day Riots of 1894 and May Day Riots of 1919 occurred subsequently. In 1904, the International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." As the most effective way of demonstrating was by striking, the congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is possible without injury to the workers."