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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 10, 2005 11:49:19 GMT
Boring for some of you but interesting to others. I'll try and find some fun ones too!
Sept 10th 1977 The guillotine falls silent
At Baumetes Prison in Ma*seille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed by guillotine.
The guillotine first gained fame during the French Revolution when physician and revolutionary Joseph-Ignace Guillotin won passage of a law requiring all death sentences to be carried out by "means of a machine." Decapitating machines had been used earlier in Ireland and England, and Guillotin and his supporters viewed these devices as more humane than other execution techniques, such as hanging or firing squad. A French decapitating machine was built and tested on cadavers, and on April 25, 1792, a highwayman became the first person in Revolutionary France to be executed by this method.
The device soon became known as the "guillotine" after its advocate, and more than 10,000 people lost their heads by guillotine during the Revolution, including Louis XVI and Mary Antoinette, the former king and queen of France.
Use of the guillotine continued in France in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977. In September 1981, France outlawed capital punishment altogether, thus abandoning the guillotine forever. There is a museum dedicated to the guillotine in Liden, Sweden.
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Post by specialk on Sept 10, 2005 12:22:34 GMT
nice one liz - we get an education as well - do you want us to add ones if we find them?
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 10, 2005 12:29:11 GMT
providing its on the day yes.
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 11, 2005 6:39:01 GMT
September 11th 2001 No need to write anything in todays slot as I'm sure we all remember 9/11 and dont need telling about it. So instead of reading about it please take a minute of your time to think about the poor people who died on this awful day
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Post by specialk on Sept 11, 2005 10:11:10 GMT
Nice thought BL and good wishes and thoughts to all those who lost family and friends.
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Post by happy on Sept 11, 2005 10:59:26 GMT
allso our foreign minister Anna Lind was stabbed to death the same day two years ago
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Post by specialk on Sept 11, 2005 16:23:37 GMT
allso our foreign minister Anna Lind was stabbed to death the same day three years ago thoughts to her family too
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2005 8:45:33 GMT
they put on a wonderful service at ground zero.. so glad no one has forgotten them..
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 12, 2005 10:22:33 GMT
September 12th
1978 The sitcom Taxi Premiered on TV
1609 Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River
Birthdays:- Linda Gray (Actress) 1940
Jesse Owens (Sport) 1913
Barry White (Singer) 1944
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 12, 2005 15:29:31 GMT
September 12th
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1977 - Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
2005 - CmonYouSpurs joins Couronne Meet
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Post by specialk on Sept 12, 2005 16:31:42 GMT
September 12th 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1977 - Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist 2005 - CmonYouSpurs joins Couronne Meet all of those without exception (except the first two)are momentous and memorable occassions
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 13, 2005 17:08:27 GMT
September 13th 1899
Danger On The Roads
The first recorded fatality from an automobile accident occurred on this day, after an oncoming vehicle fatally struck Henry Bliss on the streets of New York. Bliss, a 68-year-old real estate broker, was debarking from a southbound streetcar at the corner of Central Park West and 74th Street when driver Arthur Smith ran him over. Smith was arrested and held on $1,000 bail while Henry Bliss was taken to Roosevelt hospital, where he died.
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