Thursday, July 20, 2006

July 20th

  • 1877 - Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.
  • 1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister and President of the Russian provisional government and survives an assassination attempt.
  • 1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
  • 1934 - Labor unrest in the United States, as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • 1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
  • 1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
  • 1975 - Don Estelle and Windsor Davies number one in the charts with 'Whispering Grass'
  • 2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
  • 2006 - The one year anniversary of me living in the States, and in that time I've swapped Project Runway for Big Brother UK, sunscreen for a heavy coat, chicken enchiladas for cornish pasties and UK Nova for Supernova. Everybody still thinks I'm Irish - except those people who might think I'm Polish - and I'm still very much happy and in love with Kara.
  • Here's to July 20th 2007.

    UPDATE

    Not sure if it should be "Project Runway for Big Brother UK" or "Big Brother UK for Project Runway" etc etc. I can be a bit thick like that, and it does perhaps explain why I never did get my head around the whole concept of Saturday Morning Swap Shop.

    3 comments:

    gray said...

    Psssst!

    And I posted again on my blog. ;)

    Happy anniversary, Darren.

    Reidski said...

    Excellent young man. V happy for you and Kara.

    John said...

    Congrats, Darren and Kara. If you can be happy in Brooklyn, you can be happy anywhere. ;-)