Disaster dates in history . . . . .

LordSutch

15th April 1912 - The sinking of the Titanic.

10 October 1918 - RMS Leinster sunk by a torpedo.

06th May 1937 - The Hindenberg Airship disaster.

There's three dates for starters, over to you . . . .

chin_grin

No no, I insist. Please continue your riveting tale.

Temptamperu

30 April 2010 - Our 9/11, Gerry Ryans death.

MisterEpicurus

31st January 2012 - The date this thread gets locked.

Bannasidhe

30 March 1603 Surrender of Hugh O'Neill.
29/30 September 1938 Signing of the Munich Agreement.
1 August 1166 Dairmuid MacMurrough left Ireland to recruit Norman allies.

RichieC

I don't believe in the titanic.

minidazzler

11/05/1989 I was born.

Duckworth_Luas

July 19th.

Celebrated by Galwegians as their day of liberation, but a date that will live in infamy among fans of peanut, nougat and chocolate based confectionary.

kfallon

27/11/1980






































I shit the bed

:P

sensibleken

August 29th 1997 - Judgement day

token101

January 13th 2006- Steve Staunton takes Ireland job.

Underdraft

19 May 1999 : Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is released.

Auvers

May 2nd 1982 the ARA General Belgrano sunk by Britain outside the British-declared total exclusion zone

nobody ever brought to justice for this war crime in which 323 mainly young Argentinian recruits died

Fago!

9th March 2011. The day Enda Kenny became leader of a country.

Chuck Stone

19/11/1986

Took a fall off a skateboard and nearly cried in front of my friends.

Fratton Fred

Auvers wrote: »

May 2nd 1982 the ARA General Belgrano sunk by Britain outside the British-declared total exclusion zone

nobody ever brought to justice for this war crime in which 323 mainly young Argentinian recruits died

The only crime around here is your post.

26th December 2004, the Indian Ocean quake that caused a Tsunami killling over 200,000 people.

foxyboxer

29th September 2008.

The 'Unilateral' Banking Guarantee is agreed.

:rolleyes:

Auvers

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The only crime around here is your post

truth hurts

telekon

24th May 2007: In their wisdom, the Irish electorate disastrously re-elect Bertie's FF for a 3rd successive time. :mad::mad:

Duckworth_Luas

19th September 1992

bwatson

Auvers wrote: »

May 2nd 1982 the ARA General Belgrano sunk by Britain outside the British-declared total exclusion zone

nobody ever brought to justice for this war crime in which 323 mainly young Argentinian recruits died

Britain was defending its territory from a hostile nation. Britain and Argentina were at war. The Belgrano was tactically positioning itself for an attack on the Royal Navy task force. The Belgrano was considered a threat by the British and as such, in order to protect the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and the lives of British service personnel, she was sunk.

The real tragedy was that the Argentine junta had sent them to take the islands in the first place. This was a war instigated by Argentina and the death of every serviceman, regardless of nationality (although for obvious reasons I care far less about the Argentine dead) lays at their doorstep.

You are right though - the truth does hurt. The sinking of the ship was in my opinion justified but the fact is hundreds of young argentines did indeed die in the incident. Very, very sad. Such is war.

Auvers

bwatson wrote: »

.You are right though - the truth does hurt. The sinking of the ship was in my opinion justified but the fact is hundreds of young argentines did indeed die in the incident. Very, very sad. Such is war.

posted on behalf of the MoD

bwatson

Auvers wrote: »

posted on behalf of the MoD

You do realise that the Argentine government and department of defence subsequently conceeded that the sinking of the Belgrano by the HMS Conqueror was a legitimate act of war?

These are official bodies representing the nation which lost over 300 men and service personnel in the incident.

Strange that they can accept this yet you, another fixated Irishman, cannot.

Fratton Fred

bwatson wrote: »

You do realise that the Argentine government and department of defence subsequently conceeded that the sinking of the Belgrano by the HMS Conqueror was a legitimate act of war?

These are official bodies representing the nation which lost over 300 men and service personnel in the incident.

Strange that they can accept this yet you, another fixated Irishman, cannot.

Even the Captain of the Belgrano came out and said he would have done the same thing.

mattjack

Auvers wrote: »

May 2nd 1982 the ARA General Belgrano sunk by Britain outside the British-declared total exclusion zone

nobody ever brought to justice for this war crime in which 323 mainly young Argentinian recruits died

bwatson wrote: »

Britain was defending its territory from a hostile nation. Britain and Argentina were at war. The Belgrano was tactically positioning itself for an attack on the Royal Navy task force. The Belgrano was considered a threat by the British and as such, in order to protect the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and the lives of British service personnel, she was sunk.

The real tragedy was that the Argentine junta had sent them to take the islands in the first place. This was a war instigated by Argentina and the death of every serviceman, regardless of nationality (although for obvious reasons I care far less about the Argentine dead) lays at their doorstep.

You are right though - the truth does hurt. The sinking of the ship was in my opinion justified but the fact is hundreds of young argentines did indeed die in the incident. Very, very sad. Such is war.

bwatson wrote: »

You do realise that the Argentine government and department of defence subsequently conceeded that the sinking of the Belgrano by the HMS Conqueror was a legitimate act of war?

These are official bodies representing the nation which lost over 300 men and service personnel in the incident.

Strange that they can accept this yet you, another fixated Irishman, cannot.

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Even the Captain of the Belgrano came out and said he would have done the same thing.

Captain Maradona no less, he went on have to have a glittering career as a coke sampler.

John Doe1

4th of July 1907-Hitler rejected from Vienna School of art and starting him on a path towards killing jews

timesnap

RichieC wrote: »

I don't believe in the titanic.

I don't believe in icebergs.:pac:

steddyeddy

The date when CO2 emissions become impossible to reverse, which isnt far off.

RichieC

steddyeddy wrote: »

The date when CO2 emissions become impossible to reverse, which isnt far off.

We missed that boat.

KeithAFC

5 January 1976

Viral Vector

03/04/0033 - Jesus Christ dies

Stinicker

24th May 2007
Irish General Election, a party of Fianna Fail traitors under Bertie Ahern get elected, the following five years are the blackest in modern Irish history, devastation, pestilence and suffering is brought upon the land. The richest in society get bailed out whilst the poor are crushed in the gutter, binding agreements signed to keep Ireland poor for the next 40 years.

Stinicker

KeithAFC wrote: »

5 January 1976

30 January 1972

LordSutch

7th July 2005 - London bombings.

steddyeddy

KeithAFC wrote: »

5 January 1976

your birthday? Joking!

McBauer

What was the date of the Drumshanbo massacre?

Cú Giobach

17/8/267,674,957 BC, the Permian mass extinction.

timesnap

Stinicker wrote: »

30 January 1972

Careful now,that was the third bloody sunday in history.

21st December 2012,the mayans turn out to be right.

it's the end of the world as we know it.
that has happened already so it must be true that the calender is incorrect!

Duckworth_Luas

Viral Vector wrote: »

03/04/0033 - Jesus Christ dies

05/04/0033 - First respawn in history

Fenian Army

6 December 1921

mattjack

Fenian Army wrote: »

6 December 1921

Christmas lights turned on somewhere ?

KeithAFC

mattjack wrote: »

Christmas lights turned on somewhere ?

They lost.

AudreyHepburn

September 11th 2001 - I'm a little surprised no-one's mentioned this yet.

timesnap

Fenian Army wrote: »

6 December 1921

Looks like everybody wants to get into the act!:)

Bloody Sunday (1887), a demonstration in London, England against British repression in Ireland
Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa
Bloody Sunday (1905), a massacre in Saint Petersburg, Russia that led to the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions
Everett massacre (1916), violence in Washington, United States between trade union members and local authorities
Marburg's Bloody Sunday (1919), a massacre of civilians of German ethnic origin in Maribor during the protest at the central city square
Bloody Sunday (1920), a day of violence in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
Bloody Sunday (1921), a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
Bloody Sunday (1926), a day of violence in Alsace
Bloody Sunday (1938), police violence against unemployed protesters in Vancouver, Canada
Bloody Sunday (1939), aka Bromberg Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II
Bloody Sunday (1965), a violent attack during the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, United States
Bloody Sunday (1969), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey
Bloody Sunday (1972), shooting of unarmed civilian protesters by the British Army (Parachute Regiment) in Derry, Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998), an inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972
January Events (Lithuania) - January 13, 1991 attack on civilians is referred to as Bloody Sunday in Lithuania
[edit]Music

Several songs have been written about the Bloody Sunday (1972) in Northern Ireland, including:
"Sunday Bloody Sunday", a 1972 song from the album Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
"Bloody Sunday", a 1979 song by Stiff Little Fingers
"Sunday Bloody Sunday", a 1983 song by U2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_sunday

DoesNotCompute

The night of the blanket bank guarantee

membersonly

I ran over and killed a dog on one before, she went out with me again though.

Stinicker

Fenian Army wrote: »

6 December 1921

A historic day and so upon that Historic day not only did Ireland get freedom but it also signalled the end of the British Empire, on their very own door step Irish patriots and heroes had defeated empire.

KeithAFC wrote: »

They lost.

Whilst the British Empire had lost Ireland the real loss was shown that they could be defeated and millions around the world took confidence from Ireland's victory over the British Empire and bloody conflict would rage once again throughout the world when Britain fought for land that was not theirs. So yes it was not just a major loss but it was the beginning of the end for the British Empire which saw them lose face and empire and eventually be replaced as the worlds leading superpower and stare defeat in the face during WWII only for the USA.

The Heroes of 1916 did not just bring freedom to Ireland they were the catalyst that brought about a lasting change which freed millions from tyranny world wide.

KeithAFC

Stinicker wrote: »

A historic day and so upon that Historic day not only did Ireland get freedom but it also signalled the end of the British Empire, on their very own door step Irish patriots and heroes had defeated empire.


Whilst the British Empire had lost Ireland the real loss was shown that they could be defeated and millions around the world took confidence from Ireland's victory over the British Empire and bloody conflict would rage once again throughout the world when Britain fought for land that was not theirs. So yes it was not just a major loss but it was the beginning of the end for the British Empire which saw them lose face and empire and eventually be replaced as the worlds leading superpower and stare defeat in the face during WWII only for the USA.

The Heroes of 1916 did not just bring freedom to Ireland they were the catalyst that brought about a lasting change which freed millions from tyranny world wide.

The British Empire was on the way out by then anyway. WW1 just finished it off. Considering the peak the Empire was at it, it was a large fall.

But the 1916 rebels didn't get what they wanted. Anyone who understands the 1916 rebels and Irish Republicanism, will tell you that it wasn't a victory.

RichieC

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

September 11th 2001 - I'm a little surprised no-one's mentioned this yet.

11 September 73 us led coup deposes democratically elected leader of chile and installs murderous tyrant augusto pinochet. Described by the then us adminisitration as "our kind of guy"

Fenian Army

Stinicker wrote: »

A historic day and so upon that Historic day not only did Ireland get freedom but it also signalled the end of the British Empire, on their very own door step Irish patriots and heroes had defeated empire.

I disagree. It was that day when Ireland was divided and the foundations stones laid for the disastrous counter revolution which was the Civil War.

LordSutch

7th May 1915, RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo off Kinsale, killing 1,198 people.