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No. Fossil fuels are here to stay and energy markets ignore wind and solar making the vast government subsidies a vast waste.This is bad and future is dim. Why? Michael more exposes the “false promise” of renewable energy in his latest documentary.The gig is up for wind and solar as even radical eco types like Michael Moore see the scam of these ugly intermittent contraptions exposed in his lates documentary on earth day. Here are some early headlines and they have merit in my opinion.See the full documentary PLANET OF THE HUMANS on youtube -April 22, 2020Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called 'green' energyBy Andrea WidburgMICHAEL MOORE : ‘Green Energy Is A Scam’New Michael Moore-backed doc examines "false promise" of renewable energyimage credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / http://Shutterstock.MY COMMENT PUBLISHED BY THE DELINGPOLE STORYjamesmatkinwritings PERMALINKApril 24, 2020 4:47 pmMoore is right to bring down wind and solar as alternatives to fossil fuels and surely the collateral damage to the Paris Accord falls as well. The gang up in Paris on CO2 by tax happy governments was always two step. Get rid of fossil fuels so clean energy(??) would take over. This means if the second step is gone then the first step of crushing fossil fuels is madness. Time to endorse the 90 Leading Italian Scientists Petition urging governments that there is no climate crisis –“In conclusion, given the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE THAT FOSSIL FUELS have for the energy supply of humanity, we suggest that they should not adhere to policies of uncritically reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere with THE ILLUSORY PRETENSE OF CONTROLLING THE CLIMATE.”https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/04/90-leading-italian-scientists-sign-petition-co2-impact-on-climate-unjustifiably-exaggerated-catastrophic-predictions-not-realistic/MAIN DELINGPOLE STORY -Career Climate Skeptic James Delingpole: punchablefaces.Simple. Moore has backed the most powerful, brutally honest and important documentary of his career. It’s also by far his bravest because it not only confronts the modern left’s greatest shibboleth — “clean” energy — but it does indeed offer a great deal of succour to Moore’s avowed enemy President Donald Trump.It might even help Trump clinch the next presidential election for it undermines the entire basis of the Green New Deal being pushed in one form or another by his opponents. Renewable energy, the documentary makes abundantly clear, is not the solution to the problem — but an even bigger problem than the one it is supposedly solving.The documentary was directed by Jeff Gibbs, who, like Moore, is very much a man of the left. Gibbs was a producer and composer on Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. In his youth, he was the kind of committed, long-haired eco activist who sabotages diggers by putting sugar in their gas tanks.And it’s this left-wing, activist background of Gibbs and Moore which makes the movie’s message so much more compelling.Renewable energy, it tells us, is not clean energy but dirty energy because it does tremendous damage to the environment. The people who make money out of it are the worst kind of crony-capitalists. Anyone who claims to believe otherwise is either an idiotic dupe or a wicked liar.https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/04/90-leading-italian-scientists-sign-petition-co2-impact-on-climate-unjustifiably-exaggerated-catastrophic-predictions-not-realistic/INTERMITTENCY IS THE STUMBLING BLOCK FOR RENEWABLESThe heart of the matter is the intermittency of wind and solar when the wind does not blow and sun does not shine at the most inopportune times. The hope was for new battery storage technology to cover the gap. This is not happening. Sadly, I have personal experience working as a director with two truly innovative new battery technology start ups. Both have struggled for 5 years and counting and no light at the end of the tunnel. See the reason -The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record StraightBy Anthony Milewski, Chairman, Cobalt 27March 7, 2019in Technology Metals Edition InsightHow long does it take from a scientific breakthrough to commercial battery production? From discovery of a new material to inclusion into a chemistry to wide spread commercial use can take between 10 and 20 years. The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research has come up with a matrix for thinking about the actual time it takes for this process:·Scientific discovery of a new material(s) or process. There is no time frame for this.·New class of material synthesized. Scientists may spend one to two years on this step.·Prove performance of the half cell. Between two to five years.·Proven performance of lab scale fuel cells. Between two to five years.·Material scale-up, cell testing, and scaling up to pack. Between five to ten years.The implications of this matrix are profound for the batteries that power EVs and should be considered by investors.The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record Straight - Anthony Milewski, Cobalt 27Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s Spectacular Financial CollapseApril 14, 2019 by stopthesethings 4 CommentsCut the subsidies and the wind industry would disappear in a heartbeat. The business model (read ‘colossal government mandated scam’) has all the hallmarks of an enormous Ponzi scheme – the wind industry’s demise is a matter of when, not if. The withdrawal of subsidies across Europe has taken its toll, as the number of new turbines erected plummets. Twelve countries in the European Union (EU) failed to install “a single wind turbine” last year.Saddled with debt and peddling the world’s worst wind turbines hasn’t helped German turbine maker Senvion, either.Its parent, the Indian outfit Suzlon suffered India’s biggest convertible-bond default in 2012 – was seriously struggling then and isn’t in any better shape now – even a name change to “Senvion” didn’t help.In 2015, a debt-ridden Suzlon and struggling Senvion parted company, with a US firm, Centerbridge Partners throwing €1 billion at the wreckage in the hope some of it could be salvaged.Four years on and it’s clear that Senvion was terminal.Here’s a couple of pieces from Germany on only the latest renewable energy outfit to face total collapse. And the, oh so tragic ‘disaster’, has a run of serious knock-on consequences for wind farms and RE rent seekers here in Australia, as we’ll detail below…Lincoln Gap (just to the west of Port Augusta in SA) is touted as the latest thing in wind farms, with claims that it will have a bigger-than-Ben-Hur battery to account for the weather – ie the fact they can only ever deliver power around 30% of the time and at crazy, random intervals. The project was meant to comprise 59 turbines. However, at last count there are only about 8 or 10 that look anything like complete. With Senvion’s sudden and monumental collapse the chances of completing the balance of the project now, look pretty thin.Adding to our sense of delicious schadenfreude is the fact that the key backer of Nexif (the firm that owns the part finished project) is the one and only Alex Turnbull. Alex is the son of Malcolm, the Liberal PM dumped by his party for his renewable energy obsession.Alex’s relationship with the embattled wind power outfit, Infigen is the stuff of legend: Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit InfigenAs to the Singapore based Nexif and its stalled Lincoln Gap project, STT understands that Turnbull & Son went to great lengths to secure a power purchase agreement with Snowy Hydro to finance the project, along with a pile of cash from the Federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Another case of it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.Well, it seems that this is one that Daddy can’t fix in a hurry. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.https://stopthesethings.com/2019/04/14/flat-broke-busted-german-wind-turbine-maker-senvions-spectacular-financial-collapse/SOLAR FARMS GET MILLIONS MORE IN TAXPAYER HANDOUTS THAN THEY MAKE SELLING ELECTRICITYDate: 13/05/19Daily MailTen of UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million plus in eco subsidies last yearTotal cost of providing subsidies to renewables market is estimated at £7billionThe plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handoutsBritain’s biggest solar farms get more money in taxpayer subsidies than they make from selling the electricity they produce.The plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handouts, funded from ‘green taxes’ on fuel bills.Now many of them make the majority of their cash from the subsidies.Some farms have been snapped up by private firms, venture capitalists and pension funds which realise they are guaranteed money-spinners, in part because of the Government-backed handouts.But critics say the system, which often guarantees the handouts for 15 or 20 years, has been way too generous and skewed the energy market – leading to bigger household electricity bills.Dr John Constable, director of charity Renewable Energy Foundation, which publishes data on the energy sector, said: ‘The legacy entitlements are costing consumers dearly and will continue to do so for many years to come.‘In order to remain internationally competitive, the UK needs to scrape every barnacle off the hull of the economy – retrospective cuts to renewables subsidies cannot be ruled out.’Ten of the UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million or more each in eco subsidies in 2017/18, statistics from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) reveal.The total cost of providing subsidies to the renewables market is estimated at around £7billion – of which about £1billion filters through to solar energy.Treasury officials ended new subsidies to solar farms in 2014 but existing farms are still guaranteed generous handouts until the end of their contracts.Solar Farms Get Millions More in Taxpayer Handouts Than They Make Selling ElectricitySolar field destroyed by the weather.

NO. Solar power has proven an abject failure as an alternative to fossil fuels, notwithstanding massive subsidies world wide. Wind and solar cannot provide electricity without the assistance of fossil fuels as back up to cover for intermittency.Solar farms subsidies in the UK exceed the value of the electricity they produce.Fossil fuels are here to stay and energy markets ignore wind and solar making the vast government subsidies a vast waste.I agree with the critique by Michael Moore’s just released docu that the favorite alternative energies of the green movement - wind and solar are not green at all and much worse than fossil fuels. They are in fact a scam not providing the benefits they claim.We must accept the reality of intermittency and double costing when governments foolishly invest in these renewable.We must accept the waste and cost in coal and fossil fuels needed to build these ugly monstrosities.We must accept the reality building a wind and solar plants would take up valuable land to the point of absurdity if the goal is total replacement of fossil fuels.MICHAEL MOORE : ‘Green Energy Is A Scam’Posted: April 22, 2020 | Author: Jamie Spry |Planet of the Humans | By Jeff Gibbs, Executive Producer Michael Moore“The documentary does a good jobat proving that conservativeswere right to say that green energy is a scam““This urgent, must-see movie,a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows,is guaranteed to generate anger, debate.”Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!Top Danish Economist Bjoern Lomborg Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!By P Gosselin on25. October 2015The German online Die Welt here has a commentary on wind energy by Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg. The title of his guest commentary: “Wind energy, powerless and expensive“.Hat-tip Peter H at Facebook.Wind and sun energy are often viewed by fossil fuel critics as the go-to green energies. But careful analyses show that these energies are in reality impractical due to their haphazard supply and very poor efficiency. Most wind installations fail to reach 20% of their rated capacities; sun only provides power when it’s daytime and not cloudy. The figures that Lomborg presents are sobering, inconvenient and totally discouraging for wind and sun power proponents.Citing the International Energy Agency, Lomborg writes so far today only 0.4% of global energy comes from wind and sun, despite the tens of billions of dollars invested in the energy sources. He adds:Even in 2040, if all governments stick to their promises, sun and wind will cover only 2.2 percent of the world’s energy by 2040.”Lomborg says that the reason why sun and wind will be “no decisive solution against climate change” is the energies’ inability to be effectively stored. He calls the belief that the energies are cheaper than fossil fuels a “Fata Morgana”.The problem remains that storage technologies today are cumbersome, horrendously expensive and thus unfeasible. Wind and sun remain a luxury for the rich. Lomborg explains to readers how wind energy are dependent on subsidies, and that without them they make no sense. The Danish star economist points out that not only do wind and sun need subsidies, but now also so do fossil fuel plants so that they can remain on standby when the wind and sun go AWOL. He also says that wind and sun only save about half of the claimed CO2 emissions, and that under some circumstances they actually cause greater emissions.$131 trillion for 1°C less warmingHe writes the planned expansion of green energies by the year 2040 will cost 2.3 trillion dollars and result in only in a mere 0.o175 °C less temperature rise by the end of the century (using the climate forcing figures provided by the climate models).That means 1°C of theoretical less warming would cost 131 trillion dollars! If there ever was a new definition for insanity, that’s it.Top Danish Economist Bjoern Lomborg Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!Analysis Shows Wind And Solar Power In Europe Is On Average 16 Times More Expensive Than Gas-Fired Power!By P Gosselin on8. February 2015Charting the costs and effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe A comparison of both the capital cost and energy production effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe. By Ed Hoskins (Some editing by P Gosselin) The diagrams below show the cost and capacity factors of the major European renewable energy power sources: onshore and offshore wind farms […]Serial Exaggerator Al Gore Loses All Sense Of Reality…Exaggerates German Wind And Solar Power 178%By P Gosselin on22. June 2014When listening to Al Gore’s numbers and figures, we really do need to worry that he may have completely lost his sense of reality. Otherwise we can only conclude that he is a stunningly unscrupulous fraud. Image cropped from: Rush Limbaugh site. In Gore’s self-imagined climate-crisis world, global temperatures are accelerating, the center of the […]Search results for "wind and solar"April 22, 2020Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called 'green' energyBy Andrea WidburgMICHAEL MOORE : ‘Green Energy Is A Scam’New Michael Moore-backed doc examines "false promise" of renewable energyimage credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / http://Shutterstock.MY COMMENT PUBLISHED BY THE DELINGPOLE STORYjamesmatkinwritings PERMALINKApril 24, 2020 4:47 pmMoore is right to bring down wind and solar as alternatives to fossil fuels and surely the collateral damage to the Paris Accord falls as well. The gang up in Paris on CO2 by tax happy governments was always two step. Get rid of fossil fuels so clean energy(??) would take over. This means if the second step is gone then the first step of crushing fossil fuels is madness. Time to endorse the 90 Leading Italian Scientists Petition urging governments that there is no climate crisis –“In conclusion, given the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE THAT FOSSIL FUELS have for the energy supply of humanity, we suggest that they should not adhere to policies of uncritically reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere with THE ILLUSORY PRETENSE OF CONTROLLING THE CLIMATE.”90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”MAIN DELINGPOLE STORY -Career Climate Skeptic James Delingpole: punchablefaces.Simple. Moore has backed the most powerful, brutally honest and important documentary of his career. It’s also by far his bravest because it not only confronts the modern left’s greatest shibboleth — “clean” energy — but it does indeed offer a great deal of succour to Moore’s avowed enemy President Donald Trump.It might even help Trump clinch the next presidential election for it undermines the entire basis of the Green New Deal being pushed in one form or another by his opponents. Renewable energy, the documentary makes abundantly clear, is not the solution to the problem — but an even bigger problem than the one it is supposedly solving.The documentary was directed by Jeff Gibbs, who, like Moore, is very much a man of the left. Gibbs was a producer and composer on Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. In his youth, he was the kind of committed, long-haired eco activist who sabotages diggers by putting sugar in their gas tanks.And it’s this left-wing, activist background of Gibbs and Moore which makes the movie’s message so much more compelling.Renewable energy, it tells us, is not clean energy but dirty energy because it does tremendous damage to the environment. The people who make money out of it are the worst kind of crony-capitalists. Anyone who claims to believe otherwise is either an idiotic dupe or a wicked liar.90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”INTERMITTENCY IS THE STUMBLING BLOCK FOR RENEWABLESThe heart of the matter is the intermittency of wind and solar when the wind does not blow and sun does not shine at the most inopportune times. The hope was for new battery storage technology to cover the gap. This is not happening. Sadly, I have personal experience working as a director with two truly innovative new battery technology start ups. Both have struggled for 5 years and counting and no light at the end of the tunnel. See the reason -The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record StraightBy Anthony Milewski, Chairman, Cobalt 27March 7, 2019in Technology Metals Edition InsightHow long does it take from a scientific breakthrough to commercial battery production? From discovery of a new material to inclusion into a chemistry to wide spread commercial use can take between 10 and 20 years. The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research has come up with a matrix for thinking about the actual time it takes for this process:·Scientific discovery of a new material(s) or process. There is no time frame for this.·New class of material synthesized. Scientists may spend one to two years on this step.·Prove performance of the half cell. Between two to five years.·Proven performance of lab scale fuel cells. Between two to five years.·Material scale-up, cell testing, and scaling up to pack. Between five to ten years.The implications of this matrix are profound for the batteries that power EVs and should be considered by investors.The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record Straight - Anthony Milewski, Cobalt 27Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s Spectacular Financial CollapseApril 14, 2019 by stopthesethings 4 CommentsCut the subsidies and the wind industry would disappear in a heartbeat. The business model (read ‘colossal government mandated scam’) has all the hallmarks of an enormous Ponzi scheme – the wind industry’s demise is a matter of when, not if. The withdrawal of subsidies across Europe has taken its toll, as the number of new turbines erected plummets. Twelve countries in the European Union (EU) failed to install “a single wind turbine” last year.Saddled with debt and peddling the world’s worst wind turbines hasn’t helped German turbine maker Senvion, either.Its parent, the Indian outfit Suzlon suffered India’s biggest convertible-bond default in 2012 – was seriously struggling then and isn’t in any better shape now – even a name change to “Senvion” didn’t help.In 2015, a debt-ridden Suzlon and struggling Senvion parted company, with a US firm, Centerbridge Partners throwing €1 billion at the wreckage in the hope some of it could be salvaged.Four years on and it’s clear that Senvion was terminal.Here’s a couple of pieces from Germany on only the latest renewable energy outfit to face total collapse. And the, oh so tragic ‘disaster’, has a run of serious knock-on consequences for wind farms and RE rent seekers here in Australia, as we’ll detail below…Lincoln Gap (just to the west of Port Augusta in SA) is touted as the latest thing in wind farms, with claims that it will have a bigger-than-Ben-Hur battery to account for the weather – ie the fact they can only ever deliver power around 30% of the time and at crazy, random intervals. The project was meant to comprise 59 turbines. However, at last count there are only about 8 or 10 that look anything like complete. With Senvion’s sudden and monumental collapse the chances of completing the balance of the project now, look pretty thin.Adding to our sense of delicious schadenfreude is the fact that the key backer of Nexif (the firm that owns the part finished project) is the one and only Alex Turnbull. Alex is the son of Malcolm, the Liberal PM dumped by his party for his renewable energy obsession.Alex’s relationship with the embattled wind power outfit, Infigen is the stuff of legend: Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit InfigenAs to the Singapore based Nexif and its stalled Lincoln Gap project, STT understands that Turnbull & Son went to great lengths to secure a power purchase agreement with Snowy Hydro to finance the project, along with a pile of cash from the Federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Another case of it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.Well, it seems that this is one that Daddy can’t fix in a hurry. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s Spectacular Financial CollapseSOLAR FARMS GET MILLIONS MORE IN TAXPAYER HANDOUTS THAN THEY MAKE SELLING ELECTRICITYDate: 13/05/19Daily MailTen of UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million plus in eco subsidies last yearTotal cost of providing subsidies to renewables market is estimated at £7billionThe plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handoutsBritain’s biggest solar farms get more money in taxpayer subsidies than they make from selling the electricity they produce.The plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handouts, funded from ‘green taxes’ on fuel bills.Now many of them make the majority of their cash from the subsidies.Some farms have been snapped up by private firms, venture capitalists and pension funds which realise they are guaranteed money-spinners, in part because of the Government-backed handouts.But critics say the system, which often guarantees the handouts for 15 or 20 years, has been way too generous and skewed the energy market – leading to bigger household electricity bills.Dr John Constable, director of charity Renewable Energy Foundation, which publishes data on the energy sector, said: ‘The legacy entitlements are costing consumers dearly and will continue to do so for many years to come.‘In order to remain internationally competitive, the UK needs to scrape every barnacle off the hull of the economy – retrospective cuts to renewables subsidies cannot be ruled out.’Ten of the UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million or more each in eco subsidies in 2017/18, statistics from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) reveal.The total cost of providing subsidies to the renewables market is estimated at around £7billion – of which about £1billion filters through to solar energy.Treasury officials ended new subsidies to solar farms in 2014 but existing farms are still guaranteed generous handouts until the end of their contracts.Solar Farms Get Millions More in Taxpayer Handouts Than They Make Selling ElectricityMikeWW, Grand Rapids, United States, 11 months agoSolar energy companies consume more energy in their operations than they can ever produce with their inefficient, land-hogging, toxic-chemical-laden panels. That's why they will always lose money in the free market, even if the cost of fossil fuels increases. They can only make money by feeding at the government trough.Solar farms get more in taxpayer handouts than in selling electricityWEATHER WRECKS HAVOC WITH SOLAR OUTPUT INCLUDING RAINSolar field destroyed by the weather.

February 25, or today, is a Tuesday. Here’s some important things that have happened on February 25 in history:Historical Events on February 25“138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successorRoman EmperorHadrianRoman EmperorAntoninus Pius1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus1358 Dalmatie flees Venice1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machineExcommunication1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. Also absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown.Queen of England and IrelandElizabeth I1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills Duke Wallenstein1643 Pavonia Massacre: Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River1746 The Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)1791 1st Bank of US charteredEvent of Interest1793 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's homeFirst US PresidentGeorge Washington1795 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1,000-1,500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend, to Welsh women in tall black hats, mistaken for elite guards regiment)1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land1799 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation1803 In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire, more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganizationPresidential Convention1804 Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus3rd US PresidentThomas JeffersonEvent of Interest1830 Victor Hugo's play "Hernani" premieres in ParisAuthorVictor HugoHistoric Invention1836 Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloadingInventor/IndustrialistSamuel ColtEvent of Interest1836 Showman P. T. Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth, claiming she was the 161 year-old nursemaid to George WashingtonCircus Showman and BusinessmanP. T. Barnum1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West1847 State University of Iowa is approvedEvent of Interest1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole "Bill the Butcher" shot in the back by gang of archrival John Morrissey in New York (dies 8th March)Gang LeaderBill the Butcher1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence1st US One-Dollar Notes1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States NotesLearn More >>Image of the first US one-dollar note (United States Note) issued in 1862Event of Interest1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America16th US PresidentAbraham Lincoln1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currencyEvent of Interest1870 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)Minister and US SenatorHiram R. Revels1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill1879 US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in NYCEvent of Interest1901 US Steel Corporation organized under J. P. Morgan, Sr.Industrialist and BankerJ. P. Morgan1904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games1905 The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingenwas, a Dutch social-democratic trade union, formsEvent of Interest1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in LondonPlaywrightGeorge Bernard Shaw1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma" premieres in Philadelphia1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg1913 The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia1921 The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska1925 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran1925 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles1925 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union establishedEvent of Interest1926 Francisco Franco becomes Spain's youngest general at 33Spanish Dictator and GeneralFrancisco Franco1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords1927 Gdańsk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor1930 Check photographing device patented1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112)Event of Interest1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenshipDictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler1933 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox1938 Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia and C Gottwald becomes premier1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)Event of Interest1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody AllenActor & DirectorMel BrooksPlaywright and screenwriterNeil Simon1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)1952 VI Winter Olympic Games close at Oslo, Norway1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premierConference of Interest1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet First SecretaryNikita KhrushchevSoviet General SecretaryJoseph StalinEvent of Interest1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"Singer-songwriterBuddy Holly1957 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in NYC1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,101962 India Congress Party wins elections1962 Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathonEvent of Interest1962 Robert F. Kennedy visits NetherlandsUS Attorney GeneralRobert F. KennedyEvent of Interest1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY Knicks for the second year in a rowNBA LegendWilt Chamberlain1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resignsBoxing Title Fight1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for his first world heavyweight championship titleHeavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad AliBoxer and World Heavyweight ChampionSonny Liston1966 Syrian military coup under General Hafiz al-Assad1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea1968 Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus1968 10th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins by less than a second from LeeRoy Yarbrough; grid set exclusively by qualifying times1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to1969 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jetOh! Calcutta! - The Bare Facts1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" moves to Belasco Theater in NYC for 1,316 performancesRead the Article >>A brief cover-up by the cast of "Oh! Calcutta!"1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in NYC1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 19211972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick WiseMusic Single1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" singleMusician and BeatlePaul McCartney1972 Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders1973 Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 19751975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injuredNBA Record1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 ptsNBA GuardPete Maravich1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons1977 Soyuz 24 returns to EarthEvent of Interest1978 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham scores first Test century, 103 v New Zealand in ChristchurchCricketerIan Botham1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname1980 British political comedy "Yes Minister" written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds premieres on BBC TwoGrammy Awards1981 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel winsPianist, songwriter, and composerBilly Joel1981 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo elected premier of Spain1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 5001986 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins winsEvent of Interest1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country11th President of the PhilippinesCorazon Aquino1986 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative actionEvent of Interest1988 Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" Tour begins in Worcester, MassachusettsSinger-SongwriterBruce Springsteen1988 South Korea adopts constitution1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)Boxing Title Fight1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing titleHeavyweight Boxing ChampionMike TysonBoxerFrank Bruno1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup1990 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)Event of Interest1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto ArgonautsIce Hockey GreatWayne GretzkyActor and ComedianJohn Candy1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 281992 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of AzerbaijanGrammy Awards1992 Muddy Waters wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy AwardsBlues MusicianMuddy Waters1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"1993 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 311994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)1995 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital1995 Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich1998 40th Grammy Awards: "Sunny Came Home" best song, Paula Cole best new artist2001 54th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Gladiator" Best Film, Ang Lee Best DirectorAcademy Awards2007 79th Academy Awards: "The Departed", Forest Whitaker & Helen Mirren winActorForest WhitakerFilm DirectorMartin ScorseseActressHelen Mirren2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 19212011 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris2012 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama2012 Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countriesEvent of Interest2013 Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018President of CubaRaúl Castro2013 Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria2014 Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independenceMusic Awards2015 BRIT Awards: Best Single "Uptown Funk", Best Album "X" by Ed SheeranSinger-SongwriterEd Sheeran2016 Tenth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Houston, TexasEvent of Interest2016 Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller are honoured by unite4:humanity for their work promoting awareness of and fundraising for Alzheimer's researchActor & WriterSeth Rogen2017 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee2018 Russian national team, competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang; beat Germany, 4-3 in overtime in the final2018 Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen wins gold in women's 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; brings her total Games medal haul to 15, most won by any athlete in Winter Games history2018 2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team2018 XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold2018 China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts2018 Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country2018 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film "Touch Me Not" wins the Golden Bear2019 Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target "Captain Marvel" film2019 James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history”