Tags: Soviet Union, 6 Nations, rugby, Gorbachev, Lithuania
Date: 11 March 2009 20:29:32
Sometimes I wonder how I managed to pack so much into a week. These days I have a struggle trying to find a way to fit everything that I'd like to do in and find time for FW and myself.
I don't think it helps that I get home from work some nights feeling worn out and don't want to interact with anyone until I've had chance to chill out. By the time I finish and eat my tea it feels to late. Also, because of my earlyish starts I need to sleep by 10:00-10:30. This can hard on FW as I head to bed at 9, well I need sometime to read!
It also means that I sometimes find it hard to juggle weekends. There is so much that I want to do and need to do that I can't always fit it in. The 6 Nations doesn't help this; it is my annual occasion for blocking off entire weekends to watch the rugby. Very little interrupts my time then.
History Today:
1801: Czar Paul I is assasinated and succeeded by his son Alexander I.
1861: During the American Civil War, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas adopt the permanent constitution of the Confederate States of America. That ended well!!
1941: The US government passes the Lend Lease Act to allow the to make huge war loans to Britain, and later the Soviet Union.
1942: General MacArthur finally abandons the island fortress of Corregidor as the Japanese conquer the Phillipines. However he does promise: "I will return!" He does deliever his promise.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev, a reformer, becomes the new, and final, leader of the Soviet Union.
1990: Lithuania becomes the first republic to declare independence from the USSR. To show their appreciation the Soviet Union sends in troops. It wasn't until September 1991, as the Soviet Union crumbled, that it was finally granted.
2004: Ten bombs planted on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 and injure 1800.