What happened on this day in history?

Two guys? Do you mean the guy who thought up this theory and his one fan? Prove him wrong Rhys, prove him wrong! I bet you can't 😋

14 years ago today, Steve Austin makes it official in an interview with WWE.com: he's retired from in-ring performing. He hadn't wrestled in around a year by this point, but nothing was official until 14 years ago today.

1945, 30th April, Adolf Hitler blew his brains out. He also swallowed a cyanide capsule, so was dead anyway, but decided that he had to be doubly sure that he was dead and so took the top of his head off.

1945, 30th April, Adolf Hitler blew his brains out. He also swallowed a cyanide capsule, so was dead anyway, but decided that he had to be doubly sure that he was dead and so took the top of his head off.

1941 Citizen Kane was released. A film that is usually still listed in peoples top films list, sometimes even landing the number one spot.

This is a fun one:

Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story of the “monster” (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast.

10 years ago Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents went missing and her whereabouts are still unknown and no one has been charged in connection with it. Boils my piss that more wasn't made of the fact that they left their young children in a hotel room on their own so that they could do out with their friends. Should have been done for neglect for that alone.

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10 years ago Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents went missing and her whereabouts are still unknown and no one has been charged in connection with it. Boils my piss that more wasn't made of the fact that they left their young children in a hotel room on their own so that they could do out with their friends. Should have been done for neglect for that alone.

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Everyone knows that her parents did killed her and covered it up.

Were they shitty parents? Yes,,, but I dunno that "everyone knows" her parents did it. That's the theory everyone jumps on these days but it's another case of the internet deciding what people think on things instead of people being able to think for themselves.

I don't know... I'm with Ninjak on this one. Too much evidence that was conveniently paid off or desperately tried to be explained away by the parents. Find it highly suspicious that it's meant to be a robbery gone wrong, yet there's no evidence to point to that. If it was and they panicked, they wouldn't have been able to clean their tracks that well so that there's no evidence to support the theory.

Like they found her DNA in the boot of their hire car. When asked about that they came up with an excuse that they must have put some of her dirty nappies in there. Probable, but you wouldn't need a spokesperson to come up with that excuse. The hired a PR guy. They then used him to try and discredit police dogs that are used for finding dead bodies because it smelled death on their clothes. They've made an absolute fortune from her death and done everything they can to discredit evidence because a lot of it seems to point at them. There's also loads of reports of them refusing to cooperate with the Portuguese police including quickly returning home when it was clear they were suspects. Not being funny, but if it was my child I wouldn't be leaving that country so quickly as I'd want to find my child and be there when they are found.

Never mind that, they instantly cried abduction and have been heard to tell people to maintain the abduction line at all costs. They left the door to the hotel room open apparently. She could have just woke up and wondered off. Instead, the mother is instantly heard shouting "they've taken her". Who are they? Why would you just straight up assume that she's been abducted when you left the door open and she could have left herself to go looking for her parents?

I know all the evidence, alot of it is passed-on stories and hearsay but even when you include actual, documented evidence, I'm just saying, say something on the internet and as long as it's controversial, everyone will automatically believe it. If there really was that much evidence to convict the parents, they'd have been convicted years ago. Not saying they are 100% innocent, I'm saying there clearly isn't enough proof to put them away.

They've done a good clean up job that's why. I've heard about the discrediting blood hounds, which is awful. They seem to have done more to move it away from them than anything they've done to find her. That isn't right, they should have been helping when they haven't. They released a book about it. What the fuck?! No one would do that that was innocent. That's a proper let's get our story out there so that we look in the clear. They're doing a good how to get away with murder story, but in real life.

Now bitches, unless you have an "on this day in history" to add, get out 😄

A good wrestling based one today.

15 years ago today, WWF presented Insurrextion (WWE Network link) from Wembley Arena in London, England. 9,308 were in attendance.

The UK-only PPV featured exclusively RAW talent (technically making this the first ever split-branded supercard).

More importantly, this is the last ever show presented under the World Wrestling Federation name. The next day, WWF quietly removes all references to the famous initials after the Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules in favor of the other WWF—the World Wildlife Fund—after the wrestling company was founded to have violated an agreement between the companies. More on this tomorrow.

1961 The first American in space. Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space.

1937 was the Hindenburg disaster. The airship Hindenburg, the largest airship ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.

On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. We used to put our flags and shit to celebrate today, but looking out over the city centre today, there's nothing at all. Not even a mention of it in the local paper.

This might be one of the greatest pieces of English history that I had no idea about. 9th May, 1671, Captain Blood (brilliant villain name) attempted to steal the crown jewels. It's an impressive story.

In London, Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer better known as “Captain Blood,” is captured attempting to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

Blood, a Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, was deprived of his estate in Ireland with the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. In 1663, he put himself at the head of a plot to seize Dublin Castle from supporters of King Charles II, but the plot was discovered and his accomplices executed. He escaped capture. In 1671, he hatched a bizarre plan to steal the new Crown Jewels, which had been refashioned by Charles II because most of the original jewels were melted down after Charles I’s execution in 1649.

On May 9, 1671, Blood, disguised as a priest, managed to convince the Jewel House keeper to hand over his pistols. Blood’s three accomplices then emerged from the shadows, and together they forced their way into the Jewel House. However, they were caught in the act when the keeper’s son showed up unexpectedly, and an alarm went out to the Tower guard. One man shoved the Royal Orb down his breeches while Blood flattened the Crown with a mallet and tried to run off with it. The Tower guards apprehended and arrested all four of the perpetrators, and Blood was brought before the king. Charles was so impressed with Blood’s audacity that, far from punishing him, he restored his estates in Ireland and made him a member of his court with an annual pension.

Captain Blood became a colorful celebrity all across the kingdom, and when he died in 1680 his body had to be exhumed in order to persuade the public that he was actually dead.

A recent one today. 2 years ago today on RAW, Daniel Bryan vacated the Intercontinental Championship. He won the title at Wrestlemania 31 in a ladder match, but had not competed for more than a month after suffering another concussion. It would essentially be Bryan's last major act in a WWE ring as the following February, Bryan announced he had to retire due to the trauma his body had taken over the years.

On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century. He explored the West Indies, South America, and Central America, but died a disappointed man, feeling he had been mistreated by his patron, King Ferdinand of Spain.

I didn't know Columbus was Italian. Not sure where I thought he was from, but I definitely wouldn't have said Italian.

December 21 day in history.

1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.

Going to pick this shit up again. Was fun and kinda interesting.

On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital’s General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.

On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.

The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country.

He and his mistress made it to the Swiss border, only to discover that the guards had crossed over to the partisan side. Knowing they would not let him pass, he disguised himself in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet, hoping to slip into Austria with some German soldiers. His subterfuge proved incompetent, and he and Petacci were discovered by partisans and shot, their bodies then transported by truck to Milan, where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly for revilement by the masses.

On April 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., to thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war. The memorial is located on 7.4 acres on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. The Capitol dome is seen to the east, and Arlington Cemetery is just across the Potomac River to the west.

The granite and bronze monument features fountains between arches symbolizing hostilities in Europe and the Far East. The arches are flanked by semicircles of pillars, one each for the states, territories and the District of Columbia. Beyond the pool is a curved wall of 4,000 gold stars, one for every 100 Americans killed in the war.An Announcement Stone proclaims that the memorial honors those “Americans who took up the struggle during the Second World War and made the sacrifices to perpetuate the gift our forefathers entrusted to us: A nation conceived in liberty and justice.”

It's fucking awesome looking as well.

And inside the arch is this beauty:

And here's some extra info: