Absolutely, and Turkmenistan as well had independence on October 27th 1991 ๐ ๐น๐ฒ
Oh that is nice to know @Sabri_KC! ๐ I always use two websites and choose the news from the past from there! ๐
I looked online about what you said about Turkmenistan and I found this website: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/turkmenistan-celebrates-33rd-anniversary-of-independence/3343631 Maybe you like to read it!! ๐๐
Today is 28 October and this happened today in the past:
1๏ธโฃ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty ๐ฝ- a gift from the people of France ๐๐คโค๏ธ to the people of the United States - on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France @Etienne, @Sabri_KC and @Lianshen?? I had no idea about that!! ๐๐ It can be a Trivia question later!! ๐
2๏ธโฃ American actor Matthew Perry who played Chandler Bing on the hugely popular sitcom Friends (1994โ2004), died on 28 October 2023 at age 54 of โacute effects of ketamine,โ an anesthetic drug. ๐นโญ
3๏ธโฃ On this day in 2007, Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernรกndez de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina. ๐ฉต๐ค๐ฉต @martutuni do people in Argentina like her?
4๏ธโฃ The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis's historic role as โGateway to the West,โ was completed on this day in 1965. I can look up online what they mean with it if anybody is interested. It has something to do with people who were first going to West America when they wanted to take land. ๐ค ๐ค But that also meant that indians and nature suffered from it. ๐
5๏ธโฃ On 28 October 1962 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing to an end the Cuban missile crisis. โโฎ๏ธ
6๏ธโฃ Tomรกลก Masaryk, Edvard Beneลก, and other leaders issued a proclamation on 28 October 1918 announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state. ๐๐
7๏ธโฃ Harvard University ๐ซ, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 28 October 1636. ๐๐
8๏ธโฃ These people were born on this day: English philosopher John Locke (1632), American computer programmer Bill Gates (1955), president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) and American actress Julia Roberts (1967). ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐ @Etienne: is Bill Gates one of your idols because he is also a programmer? Do you think he was very good or not? And @Parsaa do the people in Iran like the president now or Ahmadinejad more? Thank you and merci! ๐๐
On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time in that period. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days just send a message to me. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! ๐ ๐๐
Today is 28 October and this happened today in the past:Enjoy holliday @Yue
1๏ธโฃ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty ๐ฝ- a gift from the people of France ๐๐คโค๏ธ to the people of the United States - on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France @Etienne, @Sabri_KC and @Lianshen?? I had no idea about that!! ๐๐ It can be a Trivia question later!! ๐2๏ธโฃ American actor Matthew Perry who played Chandler Bing on the hugely popular sitcom Friends (1994โ2004), died on 28 October 2023 at age 54 of โacute effects of ketamine,โ an anesthetic drug. ๐นโญ
3๏ธโฃ On this day in 2007, Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernรกndez de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina. ๐ฉต๐ค๐ฉต @martutuni do people in Argentina like her?
4๏ธโฃ The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis's historic role as โGateway to the West,โ was completed on this day in 1965. I can look up online what they mean with it if anybody is interested. It has something to do with people who were first going to West America when they wanted to take land. ๐ค ๐ค But that also meant that indians and nature suffered from it. ๐
5๏ธโฃ On 28 October 1962 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing to an end the Cuban missile crisis. โโฎ๏ธ
6๏ธโฃ Tomรกลก Masaryk, Edvard Beneลก, and other leaders issued a proclamation on 28 October 1918 announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state. ๐๐
7๏ธโฃ Harvard University ๐ซ, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 28 October 1636. ๐๐
8๏ธโฃ These people were born on this day: English philosopher John Locke (1632), American computer programmer Bill Gates (1955), president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) and American actress Julia Roberts (1967). ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐ @Etienne: is Bill Gates one of your idols because he is also a programmer? Do you think he was very good or not? And @Parsaa do the people in Iran like the president now or Ahmadinejad more? Thank you and merci! ๐๐
On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time in that period. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days just send a message to me. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! ๐ ๐๐
Today is 28 October and this happened today in the past:
1๏ธโฃ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty ๐ฝ- a gift from the people of France ๐๐คโค๏ธ to the people of the United States - on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France @Etienne, @Sabri_KC and @Lianshen?? I had no idea about that!! ๐๐ It can be a Trivia question later!! ๐2๏ธโฃ American actor Matthew Perry who played Chandler Bing on the hugely popular sitcom Friends (1994โ2004), died on 28 October 2023 at age 54 of โacute effects of ketamine,โ an anesthetic drug. ๐นโญ
3๏ธโฃ On this day in 2007, Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernรกndez de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina. ๐ฉต๐ค๐ฉต @martutuni do people in Argentina like her?
4๏ธโฃ The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis's historic role as โGateway to the West,โ was completed on this day in 1965. I can look up online what they mean with it if anybody is interested. It has something to do with people who were first going to West America when they wanted to take land. ๐ค ๐ค But that also meant that indians and nature suffered from it. ๐
5๏ธโฃ On 28 October 1962 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing to an end the Cuban missile crisis. โโฎ๏ธ
6๏ธโฃ Tomรกลก Masaryk, Edvard Beneลก, and other leaders issued a proclamation on 28 October 1918 announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state. ๐๐
7๏ธโฃ Harvard University ๐ซ, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 28 October 1636. ๐๐
8๏ธโฃ These people were born on this day: English philosopher John Locke (1632), American computer programmer Bill Gates (1955), president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) and American actress Julia Roberts (1967). ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐ @Etienne: is Bill Gates one of your idols because he is also a programmer? Do you think he was very good or not? And @Parsaa do the people in Iran like the president now or Ahmadinejad more? Thank you and merci! ๐๐
On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time in that period. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days just send a message to me. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! ๐ ๐๐
Very interesting facts!
As per Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, she wasnโt the first female president, but certainly one of the few. She was the second! First was Isabel Martinez de Perรณn, and if Iโm not wrong, she was the first female president of the world even!
Regarding the people liking her, I canโt deny there is a huge chunk of the country that has supported her and loved her and does until today. I personally canโt agree with her politics, and sheโs been in the verge of prison many times. Itโs basically known her government has stolen money from the state, and if iโm not wrong sheโs about to be convicted again. Sheโs been involved in many sketchy situations. Although, sadly, sheโs not the only one that should be convicted for that.
Thank you for thinking of me Yue!! ๐ฉต
Thank you very much @martutuni!! I did not know about Isabel Martinez de Perรณn and i copied what it said on the website with the news facts! ๐ It is nice also women can be president!! But maybe the first president was better than the other if she is even convicted of crimes and stealing money!! ๐๐
In our country we have a queen Maxima and she is from Argentina! ๐ Everybody in our country likes her a lot. But she is now also Dutch because she is the queen. ๐ ๐
Thank you very much @martutuni!! I did not know about Isabel Martinez de Perรณn and i copied what it said on the website with the news facts! ๐ It is nice also women can be president!! But maybe the first president was better than the other if she is even convicted of crimes and stealing money!! ๐๐In our country we have a queen Maxima and she is from Argentina! ๐ Everybody in our country likes her a lot. But she is now also Dutch because she is the queen. ๐ ๐
we are very fond of her and it makes me happy her children know about their heritage and our language ๐ค๐ค
1๏ธโฃ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty ๐ฝ- a gift from the people of France ๐๐คโค๏ธ to the people of the United States
Yes I feel like most French people know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the US.
@Etienne: is Bill Gates one of your idols because he is also a programmer? Do you think he was very good or not?
He is not an idol of mine but I do admire his skills and vision
1๏ธโฃ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty ๐ฝ- a gift from the people of France ๐๐คโค๏ธ to the people of the United States - on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France @Etienne, @Sabri_KC and @Lianshen?? I had no idea about that!! ๐๐ It can be a Trivia question later!! ๐Like it has been said already, I think it is a common knowledge in France and we even have many replicas of it everywhere. For instance, there is one close to my city.
Maybe something that is less popular is that it took years to first build before being shipped to the US. In the US, it was also stored more than a year before being assembled.
Today is 29 October and this happened today in the past:
1๏ธโฃ The Republic of Turkey was established on 29 October 1923, largely through the efforts of Kemal Atatรผrk, who is considered the country's founder and served as its first president. ๐๐๐ฅณ
2๏ธโฃ It was announced on 29 October 2015 that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
3๏ธโฃ On this day in 1929 was the collapse of U.S. stock market prices. ๐ธ๐ธ๐ช๐ฐ Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called โBlack Tuesdayโ, further fuelling the crisis known as the Great Depression. ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ตโ๐ซ
4๏ธโฃ Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area on this day in 1956. โ๏ธ ๐
5๏ธโฃ Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley on this day in 1901. Also on the same day in 1618 British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason. I looked up online and found this about the last person I mentioned and what happened: https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/walter-raleigh ๐๐๐ฅ
6๏ธโฃ Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. This happened on 29 October 1998 and so the hurricane was also called October Monster. ๐๐ช๏ธ๐ข Here is more about Hurricane Mitch: https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/hurricane-mitch
7๏ธโฃ These people were born on this day: American actress Fanny Brice (1891), old president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), American actor Richard Dreyfuss (1947) and old president of Turkey Abdullah Gรผl (1950). ๐ฐ๐๐๐ @diogenes_cask and @Mulanyyy do you know if people in Turkey liked Abdullah Gรผl as the president? ๐๐
On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days anybody can of course do that in this forum. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! ๐ ๐๐
I found this about the first topic mentioned above in today's list. It is about the person who created Turkey: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ataturk_kemal.shtml Maybe it is interesting to read about it. ๐
Thank you very much @Lianshen!! I did not know that at all also the second thing what you wrote!! ๐ I like writing this forum a lot every day because i learn a lot and I hope others maybe too!! ๐It's my pleasure, and there is indeed a lot to learn. I also discover new events through your thread ๐
This one is very interesting as it is full of drama and twists. I would not write much about this one here, and I am sure that someone like @diogenes_cask has more accurate iinformations than me. Nevertheless, France, UK and US are all involved in a way or another in this war, which is much more important than we often believe to understand today's world.
4๏ธโฃ Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area on this day in 1956. โ๏ธ ๐
Hello everybody @Yue is some day out with family so i will put in here name things what happend the past years on 30 octobre 130 - Emperor Hadrian founded Antinopolis (Egypt), statues of Antinoรผs were built in the city and temples were built.[1]
1897 - The 'Delftsche Studenten Bond' is founded in cafรฉ de Kruif on the Houttuinen in Delft.[1]
1955 - Jommeke, Jef Nys's cartoon character, appears in print for the first time.
1990 - A first group of Belgian paratroopers returns to Belgium after a 24-day humanitarian assignment in Rwanda.
1994 - One hundred Haitian detainees, including police officers from the overthrown military regime, escape from prison in Port-au-Prince.
1994 - One of the most wanted suspects in the Italian bribery scandal, a financier who worked closely with socialist former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, is arrested in Paris after nearly two years on the run.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy leaves a trail of destruction in the Caribbean, the United States and Canada. Dozens of people die and millions of people are left without power.
2014 - The Costa Rican volcano Turrialba erupts for the first time in years. The ash ends up in the capital San Josรฉ, 50 kilometers away.
2019 - Following the Farmers' Protest, the construction sector demonstrates on the Malieveld against the nitrogen policy and the excessively high PFAS standard.
2023 - An accident at a construction site in the รberseequartier, located in the old port area in Hamburg (Germany) also known as HafenCity, leaves at least 3 fatalities and several construction workers injured. People also go missing, but according to the fire brigade, the search for them is extremely dangerous due to the further risk of collapse.[2]
It's my pleasure, and there is indeed a lot to learn. I also discover new events through your thread ๐Indeed, Suez Crisis was a major event in history and it has turned all the balance of forces upside down. Israeli forces occupied the Sinai, a sparsely-populated desert region in Egypt, halting their advance only 10 miles from the eastern side of the canal. It was not a remarkable advence at all but Britain has paid the largest political bill for the impacts of "Operation Musketeer". Under intense pressure, particularly from the US, troops were rapidly withdrawn and replaced by a UN force. Its outcome highlighted Britainโs declining status and confirmed it as a โsecond tierโ world power. From then on, US has became the 'first one' in the global stage. Domestically it caused a massive political fallout in Britain and resulted in an economic crisis. Britain saw Suez Crisis as a threat to its economic interests and prestige, US saw it as potential increasement of Soviet influence over Egypt. Soviets saw it as an opportunity to have a political impact in Middle East. As always, politics in Middle East was kind of a Gordian Knot.
This one is very interesting as it is full of drama and twists. I would not write much about this one here, and I am sure that someone like @diogenes_cask has more accurate iinformations than me. Nevertheless, France, UK and US are all involved in a way or another in this war, which is much more important than we often believe to understand today's world.
