1872Edweard Muybridge shoots his famous series of still images of a horse in motion to settle a bet; when viewed in sequence, the stills form a primitive movie.1873Alice Guy, the first woman film director, is born in France.1880China and the United States sign a trade and immigration ...
Edmund Herring was promoted to the rank of temporary colonel and was given command of the Australian 3rd Division Artillery. [Edmund Herring | CPC] China The Chinese 18th Squadron was relocated to Chongqing, China. [Chongqing | CPC] Colonel Katsumura Fukujirou was named the commanding officer ...
The finding of gold in Australia was a turning point for the Australian society. Tremendous changes happened, bringing in Australia’s first great wave of immigration from countries other than England. Prospectors made the trek from Asia, America as well as Europe to try their luck, hoping to...
June 6– The International AIDS Conference convenes in San Francisco, but a number of organizations boycott in protest of American immigration restrictions. July 26– PresidentGeorge H.W. Bushsigns the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, allocating over $220 million in federal fund...
November 11, 1880: Notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne, Australia. December 1880: Inventor Thomas A. Edison uses electric Christmas lights for the first time, hanging them outside his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1881 January 19, 1881: John Sutter, owner of the...
13. (City of Moscow Police Department) Monday, Nov. 21 – Police dismiss potential connection between skinned dog and murders An Australian shepherd found skinned and filleted three weeks before the killings isn't related to the homicides, police said. Detectives also revealed for the first time...
When Piers Morgan appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher and defended Donald Trump's executive order on immigration insisting it's not a Muslim ban, Australian comedian Jim Jefferies turned around and told him to "f**k off". The world Harry Potter author couldn't resist in basking in the...
•The rise of the digital nomad– [The Australian] •When work is a nonstop vacation– [BBC] “The digital nomad lifestyle presents plenty of challenges, including reams of paperwork.” October •22 things I’ve learned as a digital nomad– [Spartan Traveler] ...
Niantic Hotel. Courtesy of Wells Fargo History Museum. Downieville today. Crime in 1851 Juanita was hanged at Downieville. She stabbed an Australian miner during a fight. Some say her hanging, the only one of a woman during the Gold Rush, was anti-Mexican violence. ...
and more latantly over the past five years, American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, German and Brazilian governments have unleashed a series of all out assaults on dissent and criticism of authority against political opponents, weaponising the justics system against the exercise of free ...