Today in History.....

[kicker]

February 6, 1497 the world loses one of the great composers of his age. Johannes Ockeghem, the Flemish singer-composer dies.

 

[gorgik9]

February 6, 1497 the world loses one of the great composers of his age. Johannes Ockeghem, the Flemish singer-composer dies.

Maybe some Ockeghem to listen to? The following is the Kyrie movement of Ockhegem's "Missa l'Homme Armé":

 

[Shelter]

I'll be honest - this composer was totally unknown for me. Never before I've heard from him or something by him. So thank you Kicker and Gorgik9 for your posts here.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 7th February

In 2009, the Australian state of Victoria experienced as many as 400 individual bushfires. These wildfires scorched more than 4,500 square kilometers (1,737 square miles) of land, destroyed 2,029 homes, and killed 173 people.

Bushfires are a common threat in Australia’s arid summer climate. Victoria had been enduring an unusual heat wave, with temperatures as high as 48 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit) and almost no rain. In addition, winds were recorded at more than 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour).

These fires also caused the greatest loss of life for a bush fire and wiped whole towns off the map. On a global scale, this was the world’s worst fire event. It was the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima style atom bombs going off. Recovery cost more than a billion dollars. The so-called “Black Saturday Bushfires” are often called the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 8th February

In 1990, CBS television temporarily suspended Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.

In February 1990, the gay magazine The Advocate interviewed him after he associated the human choices of drugs, tobacco and gay sex with death in a CBS News special, "A Year With Andy Rooney: 1989." The magazine printed racist remarks attributed to him from the interview, which he vehemently denied making. A torrent of negative publicity followed, after which then-CBS News President David Burke suspended him for three months. The outcry for his return was deafening. Burke reinstated him after only three weeks, saying Rooney was not a man "who holds prejudice in his heart and mind." The ratings for "60 Minutes," CBS' only top-10 hit that season, dropped while Rooney was off the air.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 10th February

In 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet.

 

[trencherman]

I'll be honest - this composer was totally unknown for me. Never before I've heard from him or something by him. So thank you Kicker and Gorgik9 for your posts here.

Same here. "You learn something new everyday" is never truer in this case and
of course, thanks a lot.

 

[trencherman]

In 1990, CBS television temporarily suspended Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.

The outcry for his return was deafening. Burke reinstated him after only three weeks, saying Rooney was not a man "who holds prejudice in his heart and mind." The ratings for "60 Minutes," CBS' only top-10 hit that season, dropped while Rooney was off the air.

saying Rooney was not a man "who holds prejudice in his heart and mind."

Only in his mouth from where the scoundrel always shot.

 

[trencherman]

In 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, filed a patent application for the integrated circuit, also known as a microchip. The low cost of integrated circuits revolutionized the electronics industry. It made cheaper computers and mobile phones possible.

Having come up with the technology for pocket calculators as well, Kilby held many patents and was later awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died on June 20, 2005.

Photo: This is Jack Kilby's first integrated circuit.

Before those tiny Texas Instrument calculators, aspiring accountants used huge bersome calculators you turned with a crank, I used a Chinese abacus but both were not allowed in the exam rooms so we practiced our long additions adding wide column of numbers from the telephone book. My older brother
who was taking engineering always carried a slide rule with him which expanded in the humidity and sometimes gave 9.1 when you squared 3.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 11th February

In 1975, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party. Mrs Thatcher - who served as Secretary of State for Science and Education in Ted Heath's Government - exclaimed "It's like a dream."

Photo: Daily Mirror cover on February 12, 1975

With this victory, Thatcher became the first woman to serve as the opposition leader in the House of Commons. England was in a time of economic and political turmoil, with the government nearly bankrupt, employment on the rise and conflicts with labor unions. This instability helped return Conservatives to power in 1979. As party leader, Thatcher made history in May 1979, when she was appointed Britain's first female prime minister.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 12th February

In 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic served as his own attorney for much of the prolonged trial, which ended without a verdict when the so-called “Butcher of the Balkans” was found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell on March 11, 2006.

 

[gorgik9]

In 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic served as his own attorney for much of the prolonged trial, which ended without a verdict when the so-called “Butcher of the Balkans” was found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell on March 11, 2006.

What an awful ugly little man who caused so much pain and misery in so many peoples lives X_X~X(

 

[graygriffin]

February 12

Isaac Woodard, an honorably discharged U.S. Army Sergeant, was beaten and blinded by police officers is Batesburg, South Carolina while still in his Army uniform. As a result of the beating he received, he was blinded. His beating and the acquittal of the Sheriff galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 which began the integration of the federal workforce and the armed forces, respectfully

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 13th February

In 1988, Michael Jackson bought a ranch in Santa Ynez, California that he called "Neverland''; and the rest is history.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 14th February

In 1537, England's King Henry VIII officially declared Feb. 14 the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.

 

[gorgik9]

In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared Feb. 14 the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.

Hrrmmm...well, Henry VII (nr 7) didn't declare anything on 14 February 1537 simply because he had been thoroughly stone dead for decades and not even kings of England of the Tudor dynasty declares things if and when they're duly dead; Henry VII passed away in 1509.

So in 1537 the king of England was his son, Henry VIII, you know the king with 6 wifes, of whom he beheaded two...a dangerous bastard of a king...

Henry as Jonathan Rhys Meyers at his most handsome...

 

[haiducii]

Thanks for the correction, gorgik9. I'm sorry for my typing mistake :blushing:

In 1537, King Henry VIII (not Henry VII) declared, by Royal Charter, that all England would celebrate February 14 as "Saint Valentine's Day".

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 15th February

In 1965, the modern Canadian flag, bearing its hallmark maple leaf, was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Today, Canada’s red maple leaf flag is one of the most recognizable national flags in the world; it has also come to symbolize unity, tolerance, and peace.

 

[boy10]

It also the beautiful!

 

[dargelos]

Reminds me when I did a lot of hitching, some of the other hitchers carried Canada flags even though theyd never been to the country. They reckoned that drivers always stop for what appears to be a Canadian hitcher because they are the friendliest to talk to and safer and cleaner than any of the other travellers.