🕰️🌞 What happened today? 🤷‍♀️🤓

On November 16, 1933, the tomb of King Seqenenre Taa II was discovered in Egypt, one of the rulers of the Seventeenth Dynasty in the era of the Second Transition. Seqenenre was famous for his role in resisting the Hyksos, and the discovery of his tomb was important evidence of that historical era.

You know A LOTTTT about history @psysarah15!!! I like that a lot!! 🙂 Maybe you can write sometime a class for PPG University!! You can read more about that here: https://penpal-gate.net/forum/12-everyday-life-and-customs/9008-ppg-university-news-report If you like that you can choose ANY topic and i would read it the same day of course!! 😛

Today is 17 November and this happened on this date in the past:

1️⃣ On this day in 284, Diocletian was acclaimed Roman emperor by his soldiers. Maybe this news is nice to read for @diogenes_cask!! Do you know perhaps more about that Roman emperor?

2️⃣ At the death of Mary I this day in 1558, Elizabeth Tudor came to the English throne as Elizabeth I. I looked online and here you can read more about it: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/mary-and-elizabeth-i-sisters-at-odds/145033

3️⃣ The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C. on 17 November 1800.

4️⃣ On 17 November 1869, after 10 years of construction, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt. @psysarah15 this news is nice for you to read because it is about Egypt! 😛

5️⃣ The National Rifle Association was granted a charter by New York state on this day in 1871; the NRA's initial goal was to “promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis,” and it later became a leading advocate of gun rights.

6️⃣ During the Watergate scandal, U.S. President Richard Nixon held a press conference on 17 November 1973 in which he declared, “I am not a crook.”

7️⃣ On this day in 1989, massive anti-government demonstrations in Czechoslovakia were set off by police brutality at a demonstration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the suppression of a student demonstration in German-occupied Prague, and, under the leadership of Václav Havel, they continued until the communist government resigned.

8️⃣ The first film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight Saga, a vampire-themed series of novels for teenagers, premiered in Los Angeles on this date in 2008.

9️⃣ Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born American bodybuilder and film actor, was inaugurated on this day in 2003 as the governor of California following a recall election that ousted the sitting governor.

🔟 These people were born on this day: French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840), American director Martin Scorsese (1942), American writer and producer Lorne Michaels (1944), American entertainer RuPaul (1960) and Canadian actress Rachel McAdams (1978).

This also happened today in the past (30 minutes ago 😛): https://penpal-gate.net/forum/4-news-and-updates/10011-improved-post-formatting 😊😊

Thank you very much @psysarah15!! Sukran a lot!! 🙂 You know very much about history so it is always nice if you write more about some of the news stories!!! 🌸🌻

Today is 18 November and this happened on this date in the past:

1️⃣ On 18 November 1477, William Caxton, a pioneering English printer, published Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, the first dated book printed in England.

2️⃣ Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, which replaced an earlier basilica, was consecrated on this day in 1626; it is the second largest religious building in Christendom.

3️⃣ On 18 November 1928, Walt Disney released Steamboat Willie, the first animated film with sound to feature Mickey Mouse; the huge success of the cartoon helped make Mickey an iconic character and led to the Disney Company's dominance in the animated market.

4️⃣ The American dramatic film Ben-Hur, arguably the best of Hollywood's biblical epics, had its world premiere on this date in 1959; it later won an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards.

5️⃣ The first push-button (Touch-Tone) telephones debuted in the United States on 18 November 1963, eventually replacing most rotary-dial models. This news is maybe nice for @Etienne because I remember from this forum: https://penpal-gate.net/forum/13-anything-and-everything/9762-best-item-from-the-past that he has saved all his mobile phones from the past so maybe you also need the get the first push-button phone and a rotary phone! 😛

6️⃣ American Democratic politician Robert C. Byrd became the longest-serving member of Congress on 18 November 2009, with a combined service in the House of Representatives and Senate of 56 years 319 days; he died the following year.

7️⃣ Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple religious community that he formed in the 1950s, and some 900 of his followers died this day in 1978 in Guyana in a massive act of murder-suicide known as the Jonestown massacre.

8️⃣ These people were born on this day: American astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (1923)

And also were born on this day: sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said (1940), British writer Alan Moore (1953) and Canadian author Margaret Atwood (1939).

@Yue_ you don't have to place all your images at the bottom of your post, you can squeeze them in between text (and even resize them) 😃

@Yue_ you don't have to place all your images at the bottom of your post, you can squeeze them in between text (and even resize them) 😃

Sorry i was not sure how to make it look the nicest!! 😛 I tried again above and i hope that everybody likes this way! 🙂

Girl don't be sorry @Etienne wanted to help you and we all know you just wanted to show us more information with pics AND it is your first time!

Thank you mulany!! 😊😊 I really like that we can now add images but it is bit practice how it is the nicest!! But i think now it is better. 😃

Omg my son who is 19 watch the steamboat willy movie so much when he was little untill i comming nuts hhhh tge movie we have it still in house lol

Today is 19 November and this happened on this date in the past:

1️⃣ The man in the iron mask, a political prisoner famous in French history and legend, died in the Bastille on this date in 1703.

2️⃣ On 19 November 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the brief but renowned Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.

3️⃣ Brazilian football (soccer) player Pelé scored his 1,000th career goal on 19 November 1969.

4️⃣ On this day in 1975, the dramatic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was released in American theatres, and it became the first film since It Happened One Night (1934) to win the Academy Awards for best picture, director (Miloš Forman), lead actor (Jack Nicholson), lead actress (Louise Fletcher), and screenplay.

5️⃣ On 19 November 1990, the pop duo Milli Vanilli became the first performers to be stripped of a Grammy Award (for best new artist) after it was revealed that the two men had not sung on the album Girl You Know It's True (1989).

6️⃣ Amazon began selling on this date in 2007 the Kindle, a wireless electronic reading device that played a key role in popularizing e-books.

7️⃣ After the Arab-Israeli war of 1973–74, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began to work toward peace, and on this day in 1977 he began his historic visit to Israel, during which he offered a peace plan to its parliament.

8️⃣ American criminal and cult leader Charles Manson - whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the 1960s, notably those at the home of Sharon Tate - died in prison at age 83.

9️⃣ These people were born on this day: queen of Jhansi Lakshmi Bai (1835), prime minister of India Indira Gandhi (1917), president of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (1954), American screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman (1958) and American actress and director Jodie Foster (1962).

Lakshmi Bai

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Jodie Foster

Omg milli vanilli i was in love with them when i was a little girl hhhhh 😜🤗🤗pele 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰jodie foster 1 of my favorite actrisses

Omg milli vanilli i was in love with them when i was a little girl hhhhh 😜🤗🤗pele 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰jodie foster 1 of my favorite actrisses

I never heard of milli vanilli before but i saw when i made the list today that they were not singing themselves!! So they just playback if they give a concert? That is very strange and i never heard before that happened with somebody else that way.

Thank you very much for your comment @psysarah15!! I could not tag you because i was already almost too late after our lunch break!! But there was a lot of Egypt news again today! 🙂 😃

That's okay, thank you @Yue_ and I hope you liked my comment ❤❤

I always like your comments because EVERYBODY can learn A LOTTT from it!! You know really a lot about history so it is always nice when you write about it! 🙂

Today is 20 November and this happened on this date in the past:

1️⃣ On this date in 1815 which was the final phase of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia renewed the Quadruple Alliance to prevent further French aggression. I hope that this flag is maybe nice for @Sabri_KC and @Pennarossa2024!! 😛

2️⃣ The American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale on 20 November 1820 and later sank, inspiring the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).

3️⃣ Russian author Leo Tolstoy, suffering from pneumonia, died of heart failure on 20 November 1910 at the railroad station of Astapovo.

4️⃣ Native American activists began an occupation of Alcatraz Island on this date in 1969, protesting what they saw as the U.S. government's ongoing economic, social, and political neglect of Native Americans; they were forced off the island in June 1971.

5️⃣ Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain since his overthrow of the democratic government in 1939, died at age 82 on 20 November 1975.

6️⃣ On this day in 1992, a massive fire erupted at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, causing the destruction of 115 rooms, though the priceless art collection was largely untouched; it took nearly five years to repair the damage.

7️⃣ American tobacco companies signed an agreement on 20 November 1998 with the governments of 46 U.S. states to settle the states' claims for reimbursement of Medicaid funds they had expended to treat smoking-related illnesses, the settlement costing the tobacco manufacturers $206 billion beyond the $40 billion they had agreed to pay four other states in 1997.

8️⃣ On this day in 1910, Francisco Madero launched a failed revolt that nonetheless sparked the Mexican Revolution by inspiring hope in such leaders as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who then mobilized their ragged armies.

9️⃣ These people were born on this day: Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Polish-born French American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), American politician Robert F. Kennedy (1925), president of the United States Joe Biden (1942) and president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan (1957).

Benoit Mandelbrot

Goodluck Jonathan

I never heard of milli vanilli before but i saw when i made the list today that they were not singing themselves!! So they just playback if they give a concert? That is very strange and i never heard before that happened with somebody else that way.

Thank you very much for your comment @Sarahsalah27!! I could not tag you because i was already almost too late after our lunch break!! But there was a lot of Egypt news again today! 🙂 😃

There is a Movie about Milli Vanilli on Prime. Its called "Girl you know its true".

In Germany they are very, very famous because a german produced their songs...frank farian.

There is a Movie about Milli Vanilli on Prime. Its called "Girl you know its true".

In Germany they are very, very famous because a german produced their songs...frank farian.

Thank you very much @Jinjer I will watch that movie later if it is on youtube!! 🙂 Thank you for the nice tip! 🙏🙏

Today is 21 November and this happened on this date in the past:

1️⃣ The first crewed hot-air balloon flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, traveling from the Château de la Muette across the Bois de Boulogne on the edge of Paris in a balloon made by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier. This happened on 21 November 1783.

2️⃣ The Continental System, a blockade designed to close the entire European continent to British trade, was proclaimed on 21 November 1805 when Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree.

3️⃣ On Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920, the Irish Republican Army killed 11 Englishmen suspected of being intelligence agents, and the Black and Tans took revenge the same afternoon, attacking spectators and players at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, Dublin, killing 12 and wounding 60.

4️⃣ On this day in 1922, Rebecca Ann Felton of Georgia was sworn into office, becoming the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate; Felton, who was appointed to the seat, served only two days.

5️⃣ The horror classic Frankenstein, based on a stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel, was released in the United States, and it helped make the hulking monster, who was portrayed by Boris Karloff, one of the most recognizable characters in film history.

6️⃣ A peace agreement, known as the Dayton Accords, was reached by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, ending the Bosnian War. This happened on this day in 1995.

7️⃣ On 21 November 2002, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit meeting in Prague extended an official invitation to become new alliance members to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

8️⃣ On this day in 2017, after some 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe resigned from office as the parliament began impeachment proceedings against him.

9️⃣ On this day in 1620, 41 male passengers on the Mayflower, prior to landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact, by which they agreed to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish.

🔟 These people were born on this day: French philosopher and author Voltaire (1694), Belgian artist René Magritte (1898), Icelandic musician Björk (1965), American football player Troy Aikman (1966) and American baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr. (1969).

Voltaire

René Magritte

Björk

Its sad their was always war and it will always be war