h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just to bookmark the page

May 10

1796 napoleon defeats the austrians

1871 franco prussian war ends with treaty of Frankfurt

1940 Hitler invades holland,lux,belgium.Chamberlain resigns an Churchill steps in

1941 Hess drops into scotland

1957 russia asks us and britain to stop nuclear testing

1981 mitterand wins french elections

1994 mandela is inaugurated as first black president of RSA

PS.....1899.....Fred Astaire was born

MAY 11


1720 Baron von Munchhausen was born

1745 French Marshall Saxe defeats the Brits at Fontenoy and conquer Austrian netherlands(oh no!!)

1812 Tory premier Spencer Perceval is assassinated in the house of commons.

1860 it could be said that this was the beginning of modern Italy when Guisseppe Garibaldi leading the expedition of a Thousand lande in Sicily and overthrew the Bourbon kingdom

1888 Irving Berlin was born

1904 Salvador Dali was born

1943 US forces land on the Aleutian islands at Attu.The first US territory regained from the Japanese.

1949 Israel is admitted to the UN.
Siam changes its name to Thailand

1973 West germany ratifies treaty establishing formal relations with East germany

1975 Laos premier Souvanna Phouma concedes communist victory

1995 UN global conference decides to extend the Nuclear Non- proliferation Treaty indefinately

1998 India conducts three underground nuclear tests

MAY 12

1535 England and Scotland sign peace treaty.

1820 Florence Nightingale was born

1926 JosefPilsudski satges coup in Poland

1949 Russia lifts the blockade of West Berlin.

1962 South Africa imposes the death penalty for sabotage

May 12

2000 alicat visits nonames' homesite in search of a friend

Hey Alicat,i'm sorry ,i must of missed you the other day...is everything ok?

14th May 1918

On this day in 1918 a Captain in the British army wrote in his diary;
While it was yet early morning a flier slipped over in the clouds,drpped onto one of our sausages and set it alight,the observer escaped.The German could not go for a second sausage because five of our fliers were already after him.He made for home,all out.The chase was good to watch.He was brought down,but not until he could land inside his own lines,good man.
In the afternoon the small area around the aid post was strafed,unaccountably,with5.9s and 8 inch.A number of the men are getting a bit out of condition,but to send them away will only make things worse for others

not famous in itself i suppose,but ,well,interesting i would say...

15th May

1767 Genoa sells Corsica to France

1848 Communist uprising in Paris

1859 Pierre Curie is born

1916 Britain and France carve up the former Ottoman empire

1923 Britain formally recognises Transjordan as an independant state under the Emir Abdullah

1940 netherlands surrenders to Germany

1948 One day old Israel is attacked by Egyptian planes and invaded by troops from Lebanon an Transjordan

1953 Mike Oldfield is born

1957 Britain explodes its first thermonuclear bobm in the central pacific

1989 Gorbachev declares an end to chinese-soviet split

Hi Noname.

Love all the info. Do you like Mike Oldfield? I have several of his (vinyl) albums. What a talent.

Quite unique hey?

I have a couple of versions of Tubular bells on CD.When it first came out i often put it on when i crashed at night,not that it made me sleepy but with a joint it was a fine way to end the day....
i lost all my vinyls years ago,mores the pity.

glad you like the info...i shall continue by the day then

I'm glad you will continue. How are you today? It's a lovely day here. I'm going to e-mail you in a while. I have tons of cleaning to do, but all I want to do is play on the computer. It's not as slow as usual. I used to love to get high, put on the headphones and just float away. (I have a great imagination.) I have about 300 albums, warping in my garage. Why couldn't they have thought of CD's 20 years ago? Did you have a nice weekend?

Hi Ali,
I'm fine thank you sweetie.I don't seem to have too much time lately though which is why i have not been spending very much of it in here.The weather is very nice,typical winter weather,gloriously blue skies,sunny and warm,hot even by about 10am,but pretty damn cold in the night time.Its ok though,i like it,makes a change from being hot all the time.
I will check my e-mail sometime today and answer yours.
Cleaning....luckily i have a maid who comes in for a couple of days a week,so apart from cleaning and being fairly tidy as i go i don't reaslly have to worry.....thank goodness.
Yes,i had a lovely weekend thanks,took in a couple of markets,read the papers,watched a concert,walked the dogs.....and chilled....and of course i spent a bit of time in here and trying to wtite some stuff.
Catch you later.



16th May

1770 Marie Antoinette married King Louis XVI

1871 British Columbia becomes a province of Canada

1905 Henry Fonda is born

1932 Japans premier Tsuyoshi Inukai is assassinated in Tokyo

1941 Iceland proclaims its independence

1952 Pierce Brosnan is born

1963 India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir break down

1991 Frances first femal;e prime minister,Edith Cresson,takes office

1994 scotland Yard approves a plan for some officers to openly carry arms

1996 Romane Prodi is chosen as premier of Italys' 55th post war government

1994: I find it admirable and remarkable that the police in England manage just fine without guns. What is it about us that makes N. Americans so gun happy?

I think that the basic differance is that the wild west was only a relatively short time ago.Correct me if i am wrong but there are still probably parts of the States and Canada where Guns are still considered a necessity.Whereas in England,the wildness was effectively tamed long before the advent of guns.
I may be wrong ,it is just a thought of mine....

You are absolutely right. You are quite brilliant.

A*

Blushing slightly.....but flattery will get you everywhere.....lol.
Stumped for words though.......so..


May 17th

1444 Botticeli was born

1536 Archbishop Cranmer declares Anne boleyns marriage to king Henry Vlll invalid because she didn't have a male baby,Executed two days later!!!!

1749 Edward Jenner is born (inventor of vaccinations)

1756 Britain declares war on France

1792 Wall street stock exchange is founded

1809 Napoleon decrees annexing of papal states

1885 Germany annexes bismarck Archipelago

1934 military coup in Bulgaria

1940 Germany occupies brussels

1957 Egypt bars israeli ships from Suez

I only give praise when it is called for. Luckily, it is called for often. I am in a state of complete euphoria ATM.

Nothing quite like a bit of euphoria Alicat

May 19th

1535 Jacques Cartier sails from ST Malo to explore the ST Lawrence River and discover the future site of Montreal.(that one was especially for you Alicat)

1554 France invades the Netherlands

1635 France declares war on Spain

1649 England is declared a republic after parliamentarians execute King Charles 1

1792 Russia invades Poland at the request of polish conservatives.

1890 Ho Chi Minh is born

1897 Greece concedes to Turkey to end the 30 day war

1900 Tonga becomes a British protectorate

1930 White women in South Africa are allowed to vote

Well i can see that i am virtually talking to myself here.So i hope noone minds but i am going to start storing this info on my own page,and keep my own journal