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2017 anniversaries

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  • 23-01-2017 10:43pm
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    Manach
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    2017 is the year of a number of historical anniversaries:

    75 years since the of the Battle of Stalingrad
    100 years since Russian Revolution
    500 years since Protestant Reformation

    and most importantly 50 years since Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. :)

    - http://europe.newsweek.com/top-ten-anniversaries-2017-530479?rm=eu


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    pedroeibar1
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    Manach wrote: »
    2017 is the year of a number of historical anniversaries:

    75 years since the of the Battle of Stalingrad
    100 years since Russian Revolution
    500 years since Protestant Reformation

    and most importantly 50 years since Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. :)

    Blooody Liverpuddlian upstarts. I had you down for better musical taste than that!

    1967
    Che Guevara and Jim Fitzpatrick’s iconic image. Hendrix at Monterrey, Purple Haze and the Axis album; the Doors; the Stones and Summer of Love; Clapton/Cream; (and seeing that this is a history forum the Six Days War, which brought the victors much support but then they blew it. Not to omit Calley and My Lai.

    Pedro
    Who is not the walrus.


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    Ascendant
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    3rd February 1917, the victory by Count George Plunkett in the North Roscommon by-election, the first of many such wins that signals the end of the Irish Parliamentary Party and the rise of Sinn Féin.

    Ed92-CountPlunkettPosterAd1.jpg


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    Dr Strange
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    350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth.

    Johnathan Swift and Dublin Exhibition 2017


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    tabbey
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    70th anniversary of the Big Freeze, White 47!
    To make matters worse, there was a shortage of coal, so people were doubly suffering. On the railways, some steam engines were converted to oil burning.

    It was followed by a poor harvest, people were afraid another famine was coming, the government encouraged city workers to travel to the countryside and help with the harvest.


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    whisky_galore
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    tabbey wrote: »
    70th anniversary of the Big Freeze, White 47!
    To make matters worse, there was a shortage of coal, so people were doubly suffering. On the railways, some steam engines were converted to oil burning.

    It was followed by a poor harvest, people were afraid another famine was coming, the government encouraged city workers to travel to the countryside and help with the harvest.

    Read about this recently, it took the government of the time an enternity to react.

    It's one of those major events that is now fading from living memory.


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    pedroeibar1
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Read about this recently, it took the government of the time an enternity to react.

    It's one of those major events that is now fading from living memory.

    Replaced by the 35th anniversary of 1982 and the 'Minister for Snow' !:D


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    whisky_galore
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    Replaced by the 35th anniversary of 1982 and the 'Minister for Snow' !:D

    Had to look that up...

    " ...drifts more than two metres deep it got so bad that the Canadian government took pity on us and donated six snowmobiles to the nation.

    Opportunist thieves ransacked abandoned cars on the dual carriageway in Kildare and Dublin "They behaved like wolves in the snow. I've lost all faith in human nature with what I've seen over the weekend," one garda told the Irish Independent."


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    Thomas__
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    70 years since the abolition of Prussia, the largest territorial Country in Germany which was deemed to be the very root of German militarism. This took place on 25th February 1947.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Prussia

    This pathed the way to how the Federal Republic of Germany constituted itself in 1949 and also set up the administratively formed Länder in Soviet Zone until the GDR was established and at even of her own dissolvement in 1990, those Länder were re-established which allowed them to join the FRG to make way for re-unification.


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    BoltzmannBrain
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    100 years since the first world war one US Naval Destroyers came into Queenstown (Cobh). Lots of events on in Cork

    http://coastmonkey.ie/us-naval-destroyers-arriving-cobh-commemorated/


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    pedroeibar1
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    Interesting. I was thinking about the sinking of the U.68 a few weeks back, its anniversary of its sinking being March 1916. There were five more sunk in 1917 by Q-ships.


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