October 14: Teachers' Day in Poland
- 1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in Poland.
- 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
- 1926 – The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
- 1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sunk the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak while the latter was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland.
- 1947 – Flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13.7 km) in an experimental Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, American test pilot Chuck Yeager (pictured) became the first person to break the sound barrier.
- 1953 – Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West Bank, destroying 45 buildings, killing 42 villagers, and wounding 15 others.
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OK Class, do you see any missing? Buehler, Buehler, Buehler...no? How about these two.
1774 | 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia |
1774 | 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart (a tea ship, Annapolis MD) |
I'm guessing it was just an small oversight by the writer over at Wikipedia. And in the world wide scheme of things, isn't Polish Teacher Day JUST as important as the American Revolution!!
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Schteveo
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This is easy. It was a Polish teacher who wrote the Wiki info
TODAY IN HISTORY
1910: One of the unquestionably great gentlemen of sports, UCLA basketball coach John "The Wizard of Westwood" Wooden, is born. Happy birthday, coach.
1947: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier.
1949: Fourteen U.S. Commie Party leaders slammed with sedition convictions.
1962: U.S. spots Ruskie missile launchers in Castro’s Marxist Eden.
1978: We all knew that, sooner or later, someone would make the 1st TV movie from a TV series, but did it need to be "Rescue from Gilligan’s Island"?
1979 Mama and papa Maines are the proud parents of a Warbling Warthog named Natalie, a wenchlet who emerged caterwauling and never stopped.
1979: Former WWE vixen and stellar dancer, Stacy "Legs" Keibler, born; if you didn't see a heartfelt hubba hubba coming, wake up!
1982: 32 years after he’s released from Hung Nam prison, cult leader Sun Young Moon persuades 6,000 Moonie couples to commit mass marriage in Korea.
1994 Nobel Prize committee begins a trend that continues to this very day when they give the Nobel Peace prize to a congenital liar named Yasser Arafat.
Billy O',
yeah, but a commie Pole I'm betting.
Anon,
did you doctor those just a wee bit?
No, they are factual dates and events.
I figured those items were overlooked by the wikidudes because....doesn't everybody know that information????
yeah I didn't think so either.
Additional, 196?, the former Miss Ratto of San Diego, CA, whose husband returned from Vietnam 8.5 months ago is told that she has 2-3 weeks left until the growth in her abdomen can be removed, which dissapoints her mother.
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