Dates to Remember...

[Heathcliff]

On this day August 26...





In 1907, famous escape artist Harry Houdini performed a series of escapes that involved him being handcuffed and jumping into water from a bridge, but on this day in 1907 he took it one step further and was bound by chains. It took him 57 seconds under the water to release himself from the chains.

[carlo1225]

August 27, 1950: Television Crosses the Channel...



The BBC has transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel.
A two-hour programme was broadcast live from Calais in northern France to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.

   In spite of formidable difficulties, this pioneer venture was successful, though the picture quality was far from perfect"-Edward Pawley, BBC Engineer

British viewers were able to watch the town of Calais "en fete", with a torchlight procession, dancing and a firework display all taking place in the Place de l'Hotel de Ville.

Presenters Richard Dimbleby and Alan Adair gave commentaries on the festivities and interviewed local personalities in front of the cameras.

[Heathcliff]

August 27: It was 36 years ago today that Lord Mountbatten was killed by an IRA bomb




1979: IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin

Lord Mountbatten and three others were killed when an IRA bomb blasted his boat at Mullaghmore in County Sligo in the Irish Republic.

[carlo1225]

August 28, 2004: Second gold for Kelly Holmes...

British athlete Kelly Holmes has secured a place in Olympic history by winning the 1500m gold in Athens.
The runner won the 800m on Monday and is the first Briton in 84 years to achieve the Olympic middle-distance double.

Holmes set a new British record for the race with a time of 3 minutes 57.90 seconds, finishing three metres ahead of Russian rival Tatyana Tomashova.

Third place in the 1500m was taken by Romania's Maria Cioncin.

Holmes said after the race: "I can't believe it - I'm gobsmacked.

"After the 800m I had a lot of confidence and I was feeling good going through the rounds, but these girls are really good and I had to focus more than ever in that race."


kelly kili holmes...

[Heathcliff]

Kelly Kili...

Kala ko yun talaga ang name ...napatawa mo ako dun ha!

You know my weakness...nyahahaa!!


Ontopic:





28th of August 1850, Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premiered at Weimar Germany.

[Prime™]

this day on world history...

August 14, 1945
V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II

Every picture tells a story, and Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous shot of an exuberant American sailor passionately kissing a nurse in New York's Times Square speaks volumes. Taken on V-J day, Eisentaedt's got this classic shot by following a sailor who had been running through the streets kissing every woman he encountered in celebration of the end of the war.


Couple re-enact historic kiss for VJ Day


A six-foot statue reenacting the Times Square Kiss photo, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt,
is stands in in Times Square after its unveiling to mark the 69-Anniversary of the end of
World War Two and victory over Japan on August 14, 2014 in New York City.

That's awesome. Okay ah.

Gramps still got the groove. Catch your Like mate.

[naruto789544]

so many memorable dates to remember... and i find the end of world war II as the most important... i like the debut of the mini also... i had driven one like that and it brings me back my childhood years... 

[carlo1225]

tinaas kasi nya kamay nya missSchy!... 

thanks for passin by sir Prime...

mukhang very memorable nga sau tol naruto kasi may flashback pa hehe 


August 29, 1965: Gemini V returns to Earth...

Two American astronauts have splashed down safely in the Atlantic after setting a space endurance record.
Charles Conrad, 35, and Gordon Cooper, 38, spent just short of eight days orbiting the earth in their space ship Gemini V - three days longer than any previous missions to space.

The capsule dropped into the Atlantic south-west of Bermuda at 1256 GMT, 80 miles (130 km) away from their recovery vessel, aircraft carrier Lake Champlain.

Gemini V returned to Earth slightly earlier than expected because the Nasa control centre at Houston feared a storm was developing in the landing area.

[Heathcliff]

Ten years ago on this day August 29th...when Typhoon Katrina hit New Orleans..





Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast early in the morning – reaching wind speeds of up to 140 miles per hour.

The hurricane – which stretched 400 miles – also destroyed the coasts of Alabama and Mississipi.

Some 1,836 people were killed, mainly in Louisiana

[carlo1225]

August 30, 1850: Plaridel was Born...

MANILA, Philippines - On August 30, 1850, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, one of the leading propagandists for reforms during Spanish occupation of the country, was born in Cupang (now Barangay San Nicolas), Bulacan, Bulacan.

Using Plaridel as his pseudonym, Del Pilar went to Spain and served as editor of La Solidaridad (replacing Graciano Lopez-Jaena), the mouthpiece of the Filipino propaganda movement.

Del Pilar, along with Lopez-Jaena, Mariano Ponce and Dr. Jose Rizal, became known as the leading lights of the reform movement, who sought to reveal the real conditions of the country prior to the 1896 Philippine Revolution.

Before he went to Spain, Del Pilar tangled many times with the friars, seizing every occasion to attack them with his tirades and stinging criticisms.

During those times, friars were the most hated persons in the Philippines: they protested against the teaching of the Spanish language to Filipinos; campaigned against press freedom, the secularization of parishes and the enjoyment of civil rights and liberties.

They blocked the introduction of reforms in the country for fear that an enlightened citizenry would diminish their powers and prerogatives.

Del Pilar was imprisoned after a fight with the parish priest of San Miguel, Manila whom he accused of charging an exorbitant baptismal rites fee. Del Pilar, who happened to be one of the child's godfathers, was convinced then, after that episode, to dedicate whole life to the campaign of reforms.

He made speeches in crowds, be it in a cockpit, tienda, or town plaza; or during fiestas, parties and funeral wakes.

On August 1, 1882, he published Diariong Tagalog, which exposed the abuses of the friars and the need for reforms.

He also wrote poems and essays defending Filipino interests and fought for the equality of Filipinos and Spaniards in his book "La Soberania Monacal en Filipinas" (Monastic Sovereignty in the Philippines).

The church wielded its influence to secure an order to banish Del Pilar. But before the order's release, he had managed to flee to Spain.

He died on July 4, 1896 in Barcelona, Spain at the age of 45.

His remains were brought back in 1920 to his final resting place, now known as Dambana ni Plaridel under the National Historical Institute located in San Nicolas, Bulacan, Bulacan.

Today, Plaridel is the chosen "patron saint" of journalists as his life and works prized freedom of thought and opinion most highly above any material gain.

He is also considered as the Father of Philippine Masonry who spearheaded the secret organization of Masonic lodges in the Philippines as a means of strengthening the Propaganda Movement.
credit to InterAksyon.com

[naruto789544]

his works woke up the minds of the people... too bad he died young...

[carlo1225]

his works woke up the minds of the people... too bad he died young...

tama ka dyan tol naruto... 

eto pa ang isa sa di makakalimutan sa petsang ito... 

August 30, 30 B.C.: Cleopatra Commits Suicide...

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, takes her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome. Cleopatra committed suicide on August 30, 30 B.C., possibly by means of an asp, a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty.

Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., was made Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt, upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 B.C. Her brother was made King Ptolemy XIII at the same time, and the siblings ruled Egypt under the formal title of husband and wife. Cleopatra and Ptolemy were members of the Macedonian dynasty that governed Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Although Cleopatra had no Egyptian blood, she alone in her ruling house learned Egyptian. To further her influence over the Egyptian people, she was also proclaimed the daughter of Re, the Egyptian sun god. Cleopatra soon fell into dispute with her brother, and civil war erupted in 48 B.C.

[naruto789544]

watched a documentary video of her life before and she was a great leader who used her brains and beauty to get what she wants...  too bad her life ended in tragedy...

[carlo1225]

September 1, 1909: Baguio was Declared a Chartered City...

On September 1, 1909, Baguio, then a municipality of Benguet province in Northern Luzon, was declared a chartered city by virtue of Act No. 1963.
Then Governor General William Cameron Forbes directed Justice George Malcolm, a young lawyer in the American-led Philippine government, to write the city's charter.

The name of the city is derived from the word "bagiw" in Ibaloi, the indigenous language of the Benguet Region meaning "moss."

The second Philippine Commission, led by William Howard Taft, which arrived in Manila in June 1900, had one express order from then American Secretary of War Elihu Root to search for a cool place in Northern Luzon, high in the ranges of the Cordilleras, and lay out plans for its development.

At that time, the Americans were mostly quartered and sweltering in heat in Manila. They thus began to explore for cooler venues where their government administrative machineries could be installed as well as for health reasons.

Climbing way up Northern Luzon and moving on further, the members of the five-man Taft Commission, including Luke Wright, were rewarded with the discovery of fresh pine growths among rolling beautiful hills, and Baguio was found.

Thus, a development plan was laid out by the Taft Commission and roads were built, followed by a survey for a railroad to Baguio. The Commission assigned Major Lyman Kennon to supervise the building of the road cut through rock cliffs to open a route to Baguio, which was later named after him.

In 1903, the Americans declared Baguio the Summer Capital of the Philippines and as the residence of the American governor-general to escape Manila's summer heat.

Baguio was developed further by the Americans by building parks and public structures such as the Wright Park in honor of Governor General Luke E. Wright, and the Burnham Park in honor of Baguio city planner Daniel Burnham.
-Philippines News Agency

[Heathcliff]

September 2, 1666 -


The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in Pudding Lane near the Tower. Over the next three days more than 13,000 houses were destroyed, although only six lives were believed lost.