ok heres a thread for those who want to share what happened in history this day in history.  any time period, but it must have happened the day of the post some time way back when.

i will add plenty of things for the last week:
Dec. 23, 1941-battle of wake island
Dec. 1, 1941- CAP founded
Dec. 17 1903-wright brothers first flight
(some time around christmas 1944)- battle of the bulge
Dec. 1, 1942-CAP cadet ranks founded

January 4^th, 1944

Allied forces launch an attack east of Cassino, Italy in World War II.

Contrary to popular belief among the education "experts" history did not start at the beginning of the 20th century.
Here's a few examples for today's date, 16th January. (The tems in brackets refer to various resources.)

1219  Jan 16, Floods followed a storm in Northern Netherlands and thousands were killed.
(MC, 1/16/02)

1547  Jan 16, Ivan the Terrible crowned himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow. He was the first Russian ruler to assume that title.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.17)(AP, 1/16/98 )(HN, 1/16/99)

1581  Jan 16, English parliament passed laws against Catholicism.
(MC, 1/16/02)

1749  Jan 16, Vittorio Alfieri (d.1803), Italian dramatist and tragic poet famous for Cleopatra and Parigi Shastigliata, was born. "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
(HN, 1/16/99)

1757  Jan 16, Samuel McIntire, architect of Salem, Massachusetts, was born.
(HN, 1/16/99)

1776  Jan 16, Continental Congress approved the enlistment of free blacks. This led to the all-black First Rhode Island Regiment, composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves, who were promised freedom if they served to the end of the war. The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Newport.
(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.19)(MC, 1/16/02)

1786  Jan 16, The Council of Virginia passed the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom.
(HN, 1/16/99)(WSJ, 12/14/02, p.W17)

1847  Jan 16, John C. Fremont, the famed "Pathfinder" of Western exploration, was appointed governor of California.
(HN, 1/16/99)

1853  Jan 16, Andre Michelin, French industrialist and tire manufacturer (Michelin), was born.
(MC, 1/16/02)

1865  Jan 16, General Sherman began a march through the Carolinas. During the march Sherman issued Field Order No. 15 that set aside land, "40 acres and a mule," in Georgia and South Carolina for freed slaves.
(HN, 1/16/99)(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A6)(SFC, 4/5/02, p.H4)

1868  Jan 16, The refrigerated railroad car was patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit. [see Nov 26, 1867]
(MC, 1/16/02)

1878  Jan 16, Harry Carey Sr., actor (Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 1/16/02)

1883  Jan 16, The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established. The US Civil Service Reform Act prohibited federal employees from contributing to political campaigns.
(AP, 1/16/98 )(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.D9)

1889  Jan 16, An Australian record temperature of 128F, or 53C, was recorded in Cloncurry, Queensland.
(MC, 1/16/02)

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This can only mean one thing. You are younger than I thought.

January 17

0355 - Death of St Anthony of Egypt founder of Christian monasticism
1746 - Battle of Falkirk Scotland
1773 - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1861 - Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1871 - 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
1893 - Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1910 - Thomas Crapper inventor of flush toilet dies
1943 - Tin Can Drive Day
1945 - Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
1950 - Great Brink's robbery in Boston $28 million
1957 - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1976 - Hermes rocket launched by ESA
1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
1979 - Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers

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Or younger than be assumes you imagine he thinks you are!!   

(Sorry, couldn't help it ) 

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However - considering solipsism,

- The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
- The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

Then any reality is that which I alone create, and therefore, cannot be proven or disproven, because reality is that which I alone decide is.