Welcome to the Round Table for Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
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Events on this date * 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
* 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
* 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
* 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
* 1499 – Battle of Dornach – the Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
* 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
* 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
* 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
* 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
* 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
* 1894 – First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Jules de Dion.
* 1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
* 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
* 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
* 1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
* 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
* 1943 – Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
* 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
* 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
The King David Hotel bombing was an attack by the right-wing Zionist underground movement, the Irgun [1] [2], on the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan, which were located at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.[3] The attack, carried out on 22 July 1946, was the deadliest directed against the British during the Mandate era (1920-1948).
Mostly disguised in Arab costume, Irgunists planted a bomb in the basement of the main building of the hotel, under the wing which housed the Mandate Secretariat and part of the British military headquarters. Telephoned warnings were sent to the switchboard by the hotel's main lobby, the Palestine Post newspaper, and the French consulate. The Secretariat or military headquarters, which had separate switchboards, were not notified.[4][5] No evacuation was carried out.[4] The ensuing explosion caused the collapse of the western half of the southern wing of the hotel. 91 people were killed and 46 were injured, with some of the deaths and injuries occurring in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings.[4] Controversy has arisen over the timing and adequacy of these warnings and the reasons why the hotel was not evacuated.[5]
* 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
* 1968 – Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
* 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
* 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
* 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
* 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
* 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
* 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
* 2002 – Israel kills terrorist Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
* 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
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Like Kurt Wenner’s work there is a finished and polished quality to pieces by Edgar Mueller, and like Julian Beever he strays far from the beaten path in terms of subject, but what sets Mueller apart from his contemporaries is the scale at which he works - sometimes taking up entire city blocks with dazzling (and dizzying) artistic masterpieces of perspective. From Ice Age in Ireland to Lava Burst in Germany his work often occupies a huge space but similarly relies on the right angle to stun an audience.
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The street art of Edgar MuellerHave fulfilling day!
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