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This Day in History
On November 25
1783 During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.
1867 Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1920 The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
1985 Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of 'selling secrets' to Soviet agents.
1990 Poland held its first popular presidential election.
1995 Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. The protest was against a peace plan.
1998 Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
1998 President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II.
1998 The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approved a $5.5 billion bailout for Pakistan.
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On November 26
1716 The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.
1731 English poet, William Cowper, was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."
1861 West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) as a result of a dispute over slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.
1940 The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews from Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1973 Rose Mary Woods told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was President Nixon's personal secretary.
1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate President Ford on September 5.
1998 Hulk Hogan said that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.
2003 The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda
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This is some amazing information....None of that is thought of when giving thanks to what we have.
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On November 27
1779 The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1889 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.
1963 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
1973 The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1987 French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.
1991 The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
1992 In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
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Wow! There are a lot of things to list today!
November 28
1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
1757 - English poet, painter and engraver William Blake was born. Two of his best known works are "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience."
1919 - American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM.
1934 - The U.S. bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.
1942 - 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove in Boston.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.
1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.
1958 - The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1964 - The U.S. launched the space probe Mariner IV from Cape Kennedy on a course set for Mars.
1977 - Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated. (NBA)
1978 - The Iranian government banned religious marches.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard.
1983 - The space shuttle Columbia took off with the STS-9 Spacelab in its cargo bay.
1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland.
1987 - A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean. All 159 people aboard were killed.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.
1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" closed after 48 performances.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1994 - Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
2010 - WikiLeaks released to the public more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. About 100,000 were marked "secret" or "confidential."
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cool I never know all ha happened today looks like every day is an important one.
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cool I never know all ha happened today looks like every day is an important one.
I agree. Some are awful and sad, while other things are really neat.
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On November 29
1864 The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia, led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp.
1890 Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
1947 The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1963 President Johnson named a commission, headed by Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.
1988 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve potentially vital evidence.
1998 Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics.
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On November 30
1782 The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1835 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born. He wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn under the name Mark Twain.
1897 Thomas Edison's motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.
1936 London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. The palace had originally been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.
1967 Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announced their engagement.
1986 Time magazine published an interview with President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staff member, Oliver North, as a "national hero."
1993 President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1995 President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
2001 In Seattle, WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway was arrested for four of the Green River serial killings. He pleaded innocent on December 18, 2001.
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Wow, all these events happened on just this one month!Very interesting,it reminds me of a Korean Drama Horror movie I've just finished watching. The potential bf was telling the lead girl that he wasn't important cause the day he was born was the day his mom died. The girl then says so, bad things happen everyday even while being born. She tells him on the day she was born March 8, 1984 exactly 5:58pm 2super speed trains collided killing & injuring several thousands of people. That just came to mind when I saw this. Right now I don't have the courage to look up bad events that happen while I was coming into the world. How about? ;) :wave:
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December 1st:
2012: Victor Ogden posted on the Fusion Cash Forum's "Off Topic" Discussion Board under the "This Day in History..." post. (Hope you get a chance to read it!)
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Wow, all these events happened on just this one month!Very interesting,it reminds me of a Korean Drama Horror movie I've just finished watching. The potential bf was telling the lead girl that he wasn't important cause the day he was born was the day his mom died. The girl then says so, bad things happen everyday even while being born. She tells him on the day she was born March 8, 1984 exactly 5:58pm 2super speed trains collided killing & injuring several thousands of people. That just came to mind when I saw this. Right now I don't have the courage to look up bad events that happen while I was coming into the world. How about? ;) :wave:
That does sound kind of freaky! Who would have thought to check like that? I'm not sure I want to know either!
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December 1st:
2012: Victor Ogden posted on the Fusion Cash Forum's "Off Topic" Discussion Board under the "This Day in History..." post. (Hope you get a chance to read it!)
That's a unique way to look at it! That will be neat years down the road for someone to come across that! :)
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On December 1
1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1917 Father Edward Flanagan opened Boy's Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979, it was opened to girls.
1919 Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested, marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.
1969 The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1984 A remote-controlled Boeing 720 jetliner was deliberately crashed into California's Mojave Desert to test an anti-flame fuel additive. The test proved to be disappointing.
1992 Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived an impeachment attempt by hard-liners at the opening of the Russian Congress.
1992 Amy Fisher was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1997 Michael Carneal, 14 years old, fired upon a morning prayer group at Heath High School in West Paducah, KY. Three students were killed and five were wounded. Carneal plead guilty but insane and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for 25 years.
1998 Exxon announced that it was buying Mobil for $73.7 billion creating the largest company in the world to date.
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On December 2
1804 Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1901 Gillette patented the first disposable razor.
1927 The Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.
1954 The U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
1961 Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.
1970 The Environmental Protection Agency began operating under its first director, William Ruckelshaus.
1991 American hostage, Joseph Cicippio, was released by his kidnappers. He had been held captive in Lebanon for over five years.
1993 The space shuttle Endeavor blasted off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
1997 U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of telephone fund-raising by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. It was concluded that they had not violated election laws.
2001 Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. The filing came five days after Dynegy walked away from a $8.4 billion buyout. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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On December 3
1828 Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
1833 Oberlin College in Ohio opened as the first truly coeducational school of higher education in the United States.
1835 The first fire insurance policy was issued by Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Rhode Island.
1947 The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1964 Police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building.
1983 3-foot-high concrete barriers were installed at two White House entrances.
1994 AIDS activist, Elizabeth Glaser, died at the age 47. She and her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion.
1995 Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for his role in a 1979 coup.
1997 Pierce Brosnan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 In Ottawa, Canada, more than 120 countries were represented to sign a treaty prohibiting the use and production of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, China and Russia did not sign the treaty.
1997 South Korea received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
1998 In Manilla, 28 people were killed in an orphanage that caught fire. Most of the victims were children.
1999 Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1999 The World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a four-day meeting in Seattle, WA, without setting an agenda for a new round of trade talks. The meeting was met with fierce protests by various groups.
1999 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars' atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.
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Very interesting. Thanks
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Very interesting. Thanks
You're welcome! It's pretty neat going back in time seeing or being reminded of things that happened. :)
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On December 4
1783 Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
1812 Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
1875 William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
1942 U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II.
1965 The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1978 Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.
1980 The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later convicted of the murders.
1992 President Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
1993 The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day.
1994 Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
2000 O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
2000 O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson's home and no drugs were found.
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On December 5
1766 James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London.
1776 In Williamsburg, VA, at the ***College of William and Mary, the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized.
1848 President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.
1932 German physicist, Albert Einstein, was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the U.S.
1934 Fighting broke out between Italian and Ethiopian troops on the Somalian border.
1978 The American space probe, Pioneer Venus I, orbited Venus, and began beaming back its first picture of the planet.
1985 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 for the first time.
1998 James P. Hoffa became the head of the Teamsters union, 23 years after his father was the head. His father disappeared and was presumed dead.
2001 In Germany, Afghan leaders signed a pact to create a temporary administration for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Two women were included in the cabinet structure. Hamid Karzai and his Cabinet were planned to take over power in Afghanistan on December 22.
***My grandmother graduated from the College of William and Mary!
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And "This is History"...Real History. It is reason for which I live every single day to the fullest!
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WOW, this has been a most interesting post!! Thank you! I've learned a lot here today. :notworthy:
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This is a really interesting thread.
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History is really a very interesting subject. Wish I had had an interest when I was a student, I thought it was soooo boring then. When we know the history of things, it allows us to understand why things are the way they are now.
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On December 6
1492 Columbus landed in Hispaniola (now Haiti) and the Dominican Republic.
1790 The U.S. Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia.
1865 The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
1884 The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
1923 President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to give a presidential address that was broadcast on radio.
1957 America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL.
1973 Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice president of the United States after vice president Spiro Agnew resigned.
1989 The worst mass shooting in Canadian history occurred when a man gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal's school of engineering. The man then killed himself.
1990 Iraq announced that it would release all its 2,000 foreign hostages.
1992 In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque. The following two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting resulted in at least 2,000 people being killed.
1993 Former priest James R. Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison. Porter had admitted molesting 28 children in the 1960s.
1998 In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a *bleep* coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
1998 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour connected the first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle cargo bay.
2002 Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.
2002 Officials released the detailed plans for a $4.7 million memorial commemorating Princess Diana. The large oval fountain was planned to be constructed in London's Hyde Park.
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On December 7
1796 John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1941 Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1972 Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
1974 President Makarios returned to Cyprus after five months in exile.
1987 Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.
1989 East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution.
1993 Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
1996 The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.
1998 U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.
1999 A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a former convict in the 1995 disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
2002 In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gohn Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea at Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen."
2002 In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movies theaters were bombed within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed and over 200 were injured.
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On December 8
1765 Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, MA. Whitney invented the cotton gin and developed the concept of mass-production of interchangeable parts.
1776 George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
1886 At a convention of union leaders in Columbus, OH, the American Federation of Labor was founded.
1941 The United States entered World War II as it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.
1953 Los Angeles became the third largest city in the United States.
1992 Americans got to see live television coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of Somalia during Operation Restore Hope.
1994 In Los Angeles, 12 alternate jurors were chosen for the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1998 The FBI opened its files on Frank Sinatra to the public. The file contained over 1,300 pages.
1998 Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi's first of eight babies was born. The other seven were delivered 12 days later.
1998 The first female ice hockey game in Olympic history was played. Finland beat Sweden 6-0.
1999 In Memphis, TN, a jury found that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin.
1999 Russia and Belarus agreed in principle to form an economic and political confederation.
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Very interesting. im having fun reading these.
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On December 9
1793 "The America Minerva" was published for the first time. It was the first daily newspaper in New York City and was founded by Noah Webster.
1879 Thomas Edison organized the Edison Ore Milling Company.
1907 Christmas Seals went on sale for the first time, in the Wilmington, Delaware, post office.
1940 During World War II, British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa.
1941 China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
1960 Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a new computer, known as "Univac 1107."
1983 NATO foreign ministers called on the Soviet Union to join in a "comprehensive political dialogue" to ease tensions in the world.
1984 Iranian security men seized control of the plane ending a five-day hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner, which was parked at the Tehran airport.
1987 In the Gaza Strip, an Israeli patrol attacked the Jabliya refugee camp.
1990 The first American hostages to be released by Iraq began arriving in the U.S.
1994 President Clinton fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning that she had told a conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part of human sexuality.
1996 UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali approved a deal allowing Iraq to resume its exports of oil and easing the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in 1990.
1999 The U.S. announced that it was expelling a Russian diplomat that had been caught gathering information with an eavesdropping device at the U.S. State Department.
2002 United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It was the sixth largest bankruptcy filing.
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On December 10
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521.
1851 American librarian, Melvil Dewey, was born. He created the "Dewey Decimal Classification" system.
1901 The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1953 Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
1958 The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1993 The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.
1994 Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.
1996 South Africa's President Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country's transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
1999 After three years under suspicion of being a spy for China, computer scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested. He was charged with removing secrets from the Los Alamos weapons lab. Lee later plead guilty to one count of downloading restricted data to tape and was freed. The other 58 counts were dropped.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld new restrictions on political advertising in the weeks before an election. The court did strike down two provisions of the new law that involved a ban on political contibutions from those too young to vote and a limitation on some party spending. (McConnell v. FEC, 02-1674)
2003 The U.S. barred firms based in certain countries, opponents of the Iraq war, from bidding on Iraqi reconstruction projects. The ban did not prevent companies from winning subcontracts.
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On December 11
1719 The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis was in New England.
1844 Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1928 In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.
1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
1961 The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.
1985 General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for $6.3 billion. Also included in the deal was NBC Radio and Television.
1991 Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.).
1997 Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.
1997 More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases."
1998 Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
1998 The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.
2000 Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penquins, announced that he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active National Hockey League player again. When Lemieux returned officially he became the first owner/player in NHL history.
2001 U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at the time of the attacks
2001 Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.
2001 It was announced that U.S. President George W. Bush would withdrawing the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2001 Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities as part of "Operation Buccaneer." The raids were used to gain evidence against an international software piracy ring.
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Dec 11 1792: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Dec 11 1936
After ruling for less than a year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chose to abdicate after the British government, public, and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry the American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. On the evening of 11 December, he gave a radio address in which he explained, "I have found it impossible to carry on the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge the duties of king, as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love".
Dec. 11 2002
International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.
Dec.11 304-384
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible.
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Dec 11 1792: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Dec 11 1936
After ruling for less than a year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chose to abdicate after the British government, public, and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry the American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. On the evening of 11 December, he gave a radio address in which he explained, "I have found it impossible to carry on the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge the duties of king, as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love".
Dec. 11 2002
International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.
Dec.11 304-384
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible.
Those are neat to know! There sure were a lot of things that happened on Dec. 11 during these hundreds or years.
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I love History and Geography along with Language Arts and Literature it is a pet peeve of mine to learn so much about what was before us. I keep telling my son it is a great thing to know of where this world have been and what happen before and what is going on now. :)
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I love History and Geography along with Language Arts and Literature it is a pet peeve of mine to learn so much about what was before us. I keep telling my son it is a great thing to know of where this world have been and what happen before and what is going on now. :)
I agree with that!
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On December 12
1792 In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
1913 It was announced by authorities in Florence, Italy, that the "Mona Lisa" had been recovered. The work was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911.
1917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, NE.
1955 It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.
1984 In a telephone conversation with President Reagan, William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day.
1995 The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.
1997 The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.
1997 Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
2000 Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK that killed 168 and injured 500.
2000 The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records.
2001 The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.
2001 Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.
2001 In Beverly Hills, CA actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shopliftng and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.
2002 North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.
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On December 13
1913 The Sunday New York World printed a puzzle called a "word-cross." The puzzle was a success and became a weekly feature. The name eventually evolved into "crossword."
1913 Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was found. It had been stolen on August 22, 1911.
1961 Anna Mary Robertson Moses, "Grandma Moses," passed away at the age of 101.
1978 The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony U.S. dollar. The coin began circulation the following July.
1987 U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told reporters in Copenhagen, Denmark, that the Reagan administration would begin making funding requests for the proposed Star Wars defense system.
1991 Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people must receive a hearing before property linked to illegal drug sales can be seized.
1994 An American Eagle commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15 people.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
2000 Seven convicts, the "Texas 7," escaped from Connally Unit in Kennedy, TX, southeast of San Antonio, by overpowering civilian workers and prison employees. They fled with stolen clothing, pickup truck and 16 guns and ammunition.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush served formal notice to Russia that the United States was withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2001 Gunmen stormed the Indian Parliament and killed seven people and injured 18. Security forces killed the attackers during a 90-minute gun battle.
2001 NBC-TV announced that it would begin running hard liquor commercials. NBC issued a 19-point policy that outlined the conditions for accepting liquor ads.
2001 Michael Frank Goodwin was arrested and booked on two counts of murder, one count of conspiracy and three special circumstances (lying in wait, murder for financial gain and multiple murder) in connection to the death of Mickey Thompson. Thompson and his wife Trudy were shot to death in their driveway on March 16, 1988. Thompson, known as the "Speed King," set nearly 500 auto speed endurance records including being the first person to travel more than 400 mph on land.
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Great historic facts!
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On December 14
1503 Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant, Nostradamus, was born at St. Remy, Provence, France.
1799 The first President of the United States, George Washington, died at the age 67.
1946 The U.N. General Assembly voted to establish the United Nation's headquarters in New York.
1985 Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she formally took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1987 Chrysler pled no contest to federal charges of selling several thousand vehicles as new. Chrysler employees had driven the vehicles with the odometer disconnected.
1995 The presidents of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia signed the Dayton Accords to end fighting in Bosnia.
1995 AIDS patient, Jeff Getty, received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon.
1999 Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic strip. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip was published on February 13, 2000.
2000 It was announced that American businessman Edmond Pope would be released from a Russian prison for humanitarian reasons. Pope had been sentenced to 20 years in prison after his conviction on espionage charges.
2001 The first commercial export, since 1963, of U.S. food to Cuba began. The 24,000 metric tons for corn were being sent to replenish supplies that were lost when Hurricane Michelle struck on November 4.
2001 European Union leaders agreed to dispatch 3,000-4,000 troops to join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
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On December 15
1815 Jane Austen's Emma was published.
1938 President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1939 Gone With the Wind, produced by David O. Selznick and based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
1944 A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris. The true fate of the plane and its passengers has never been determined.
1961 Former *bleep* official, Adolf Eichmann, was sentenced to death in Jerusalem. He had been tried on charges for organizing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.
1966 Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles at the age of 65.
1992 IBM announced it would eliminate 25-thousand employees in the coming year.
1992 Bettino Craxi, the leader of Italy's Socialist Party, was informed that he was under investigation in a burgeoning corruption scandal in the northern city of Milan.
1998 The space shuttle Endeavor returned to Earth after its crew joined the first two pieces of the Mir space station.
1999 Syria reopened peace talks with Israel in Washington, DC, with the mediation of U.S. President Clinton.
2000 The Chernobyl atomic power plant in Kiev, Ukraine, was shut down.
2001 It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called "Animated Philosophy and Religion." The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series "The Simpsons.
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On December 16
1901 The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
1903 Women ushers were employed for the first time at the Majestic Theatre in New York City.
1944 During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.
1972 The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team to go unbeaten and untied in a 14-game regular season.
1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist priest, was elected president in Haiti's first democratic elections.
1998 The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.
1999 Torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela left thousands of people dead and forced at least 120,000 to leave their homes.
2000 Researchers announced that information from NASA's Galileo spacecraft indicated that Ganymede appeared to have a liquid saltwater ocean beneath a surface of solid ice. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the solar system's largest moon. The discovery is considered important since water is a key ingredient for life.
2001 In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden.
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On December 19
1562 The Battle of Dreux was fought between the Huguenots and the Catholics, beginning the French Wars of Religion.
1777 Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, PA, to camp for the winter.
1903 The Williamsburg Bridge opened in New York City. It was the first major suspension bridge in America.
1918 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in The New York Globe.
1959 Walter Williams died in Houston, TX, at the age of 117. He was said to be the last surviving veteran of the U.S. Civil War.
1973 Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show."
1985 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments. Cosell continued on ABC Radio for another five years.
1996 The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "Ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.
1998 A four-day bombing of Iraq by British and American forces ended.
1998 President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.
2000 The U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed all terrorist training camps and surrender U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
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On December 23
1783 George Washington returned home to Mount Vernon, after the disbanding of his army following the Revolutionary War.
1823 The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1880 Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Electric Light Company of Europe.
1919 The first ship designed to be used as an ambulance for the transport of patients was launched. The hospital ship was named "USS Relief" and had 515 beds.
1930 Ruth Elizabeth Davis, an unknown actress, arrived in Hollywood, under contract to Universal Studios. Universal changed her name to Bette Davis for the movies.
1941 During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1953 Soviet secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, and six of his associates were shot for treason following a secret trial.
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ford in 1975, escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women in West Virginia. She was recaptured two days later.
1998 Guerrillas in south Lebanon fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel.
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That is some pretty crazy stuff.. crazy indeed :angel12:
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On December 25
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
1818 "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
1868 President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
1917 The play "Why Marry?" opened at the Astor Theatre in New York City. "Why Marry?" was the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize.
1939 "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was read on CBS radio for the first time.
1971 The longest pro-football game finally ended when Garo Yepremian kicked a field goal in the second quarter of sudden death overtime. The Miami Dolphins defeated Kansas City, 27-24. The total game time was 82 minutes and 40 seconds.
1991 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.
1998 Seven days into their journey, Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand of Sweden gave up their attempt to make the first nonstop round-the-world balloon flight. They ditched near Hawaii.
2000 Over 300 people were killed and dozens were injured by fire at a Christmas party in the Chinese city of Luoyang. The incident occurred at the Dongdu Disco.
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December 26
1620 - The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.
1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1871 - The "Gods Grown Old" was performed for the first time. It ran for 64 shows.
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1908 - Texan boxer "Galveston Jack" Johnson knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, to become the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title.
1917 - During World War I, the U.S. government took over operation of the nation's railroads.
1921 - The Catholic Irish Free State became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.
1927 - The East-West Shrine football game featured numbers on both the front and back of players’ jerseys.
1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1943 - The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the North Sea, during the Battle of North Cape.
1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago, IL.
1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
1953 - "Big Sister" was heard for the last time on CBS Radio. The show ran for 17 years.
1954 - "The Shadow" aired on radio for the last time.
1956 - Fidel Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba to overthrow the Batista regime. All but 11 of his supporters were killed.
1959 - The first charity walk took place, along Icknield Way, in aid of the World Refugee Fund.
1974 - Comedian Jack Benny died at age 80.
1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.
1986 - Doug Jarvis, age 31, set a National Hockey League (NHL) record as he skated in his 916th consecutive game. Jarvis eventually set the individual record for most consecutive games played with 964.
1986 - "Search for Tomorrow" was seen for the last time on CBS-TV. The show had been on the air for 35-years.
1990 - Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to retain the chess championship.
1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.
1995 - Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the Palestinian Authority.
1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.
1998 - Iraq announced that it would fire on U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the skies over northern and southern Iraq.
1999 - Alfonso Portillo, a populist lawyer, won Guatemala's first peacetime presidential elections in 40 years.
2000 - Michael McDermott, age 42, opened fire at his place of employment killing seven people. McDermott had no criminal history.
2002 - The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was made the December 27 by Clonaid.
2004 - Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.
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that is some impressive facts :)
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This is a good idea!
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On December 27
1703 The Methuen Treaty was signed between Portugal and England, giving preference to the import of Portuguese wines into England.
1831 Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
1947 The children's television program "Howdy Doody," hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.
1971 Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of Charles Schulz’ "Peanuts" comic strip were on the cover of "Newsweek" magazine.
1978 Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1992 The U.S. shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi warplanes and U.S. F-16 jets in U.N.-restricted airspace over southern Iraq.
1997 In Northern Ireland, Billy Wright was assassinated. He was imprisoned as a Protestant paramilitary leader.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush granted China permanent normal trade status with the United States.
2002 North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
2002 Clonaid announced the birth of the first cloned human baby. The baby had been born December 26.
2002 In Chechnya, at least 40 people were killed when suicide bombers attacked the administration of Grozny.
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On December 29
1848 President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1851 The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized in Boston, MA.
1888 The first performance of Macbeth took place at the Lyceum Theatre.
1940 During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.
1952 Sonotone Corporation offered the first transistorized hearing aid for sale.
1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport. 11 people were killed.
1998 Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970's genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives.
Wow, this was a short historic day!
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On December 30
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance was first performed, at Paignton, Devon, England.
1887 A petition to Queen Victoria with over one million names of women appealing for public houses to be closed on Sundays was handed to the home secretary.
1940 California's first freeway was officially opened. It was the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena.
1948 "Kiss Me Kate" opened at the New Century Theatre in New York City. Cole Porter composed the music for the classic play that ran for 1,077 performances.
1953 The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
1972 The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
1980 "The Wonderful World of Disney" was cancelled by NBC after more than 25 years on television. It was the longest-running series in primetime television history.
1988 Colonel Oliver North subpoenaed U.S. President Reagan and Vice President Bush to testify at the Irangate hearings.
1996 About 250,000 striking workers shut down vital services across Israel in protests against budget cuts proposed by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
1997 More than 400 people were massacred in four villages in the single worst incident during Algeria's insurgency.
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This info is pretty interesting!
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Thank you for all your research, It is people like you who keep our history and accomplishments alive. You are more than precious to us. Thank you and God bless your work. :)
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On January 1
1797 Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City.
1801 Italian astronomer, Giuseppe Piazzi, became the first person to discover an asteroid. He named it Ceres.
1863 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
1902 The first Tournament of Roses collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, CA.
1934 Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1968 Evel Knievel, stunt performing daredevil, lost control of his motorcycle midway through a jump of 141 feet over the ornamental fountains in front of Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
1995 The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1999 In California, a law went into effect that defined "invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity."
2001 The "Texas 7," rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park, CO.
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On January 2
1872 Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1910 The nation’s first junior high school opened. McKinley School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students. In a separate building, students were housed who attended grades 9-12.
1942 The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.
1960 Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1974 President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.
1983 The final edition of Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, "Doonesbury", appeared in 726 newspapers. "Doonesbury" began running again in September 1984.
1983 The smash musical, "Annie", closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.
1985 The Rebels of UNLV beat Utah State in three overtime periods. The final score of 142-140 set a new new NCAA record for total points in a basketball game (282). The game took over three hours to play.
1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC. She was the first black woman to head a city of that size and prominence.
1996 AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 jobs over three years.
1998 Russia began circulating new rubles in effort to keep inflation in check and promote confidence.
1999 It was announced that 66 people had been killed in Sri Lanka, Columbia, during two days of fighting between rebels and government troops.
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This was certainly a busy day throughout history.
January 3
1496 - References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. The test didn't succeed and he didn't try to fly again for several years.
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.
1777 - The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of Independence, in which George Washington defeated the British forces, led by Cornwallis.
1815 - By secret treaty, Austria, Britain, and France formed a defensive alliance against Prusso-Russian plans to solve the Saxon and Polish problems.
1823 - Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River in Texas.
1825 - The first engineering college in the U.S. , Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, NY. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.
1868 - The Shogunate was abolished in Japan and Meiji dynasty was restored.
1871 - Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine.
1888 - The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.
1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
1925 - In Italy, Mussolini announced that he would take dictatorial powers.
1938 - The first broadcast of "Woman in White" was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years.
1938 - The March of Dimes was established by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The organization fights poliomyelitis. The original name of the organization was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
1947 - U.S. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time. Viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
1947 - In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age 92. He had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.
1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet."
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the U.S. Congress.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
1959 - In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1961 - The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.
1967 - Jack Ruby died in a Dallas, TX, hospital.
1973 - The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sold the New York Yankees to a 12-man syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner for $10 million.
1980 - Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in northern Kenya by a servant.
1983 - Tony Dorsett (Dallas Cowboys) made the longest run from scrimmage in NFL history. Dorsett ran 99 yards in a game against the Minnesota Vikings.
1984 - A woman died at Disneyland after falling from a ride. She had apparently unfastened her seatbelt while on the Matterhorn bobsled.
1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century.
1990 - Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.
1991 - The British government announced that seven Iraqi diplomats, another embassy staff member and 67 other Iraqis were being expelled from Britain.
1993 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow.
1995 - WHO reported that the cumulative total of officially reported cases of AIDS had risen to 1,025,073 in 192 countries as at the end of 1994.
1995 - The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of the first-class stamp to 32 cents.
1997 - Bryant Gumbel signed off for the last time as host of NBC's "Today" show.
1998 - China announced that it would spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1999 - Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14 members of Concerned Christians. Israili officials claimed that the Denver, CO-based cult was plotting violence in Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's final original daily comic strip appeared in newspapers.
2001 - The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) charged the "Texas 7" with weapons violations. An autopsy showed that Office Aubrey Hawkins, killed by the convicts, had been shot 11 times and run over with a vehicle.
2004 - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing.
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Very interesting. Thanks
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On January 4
1850 The first American ice-skating club was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
1935 Bob Hope was heard for the first time on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue."
1936 The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputknik I fell to the earth from its orbit. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.
1962 New York City introduced a train that operated without conductors and motormen.
1981 The Broadway show "Frankenstein" lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.
1984 Wayne ‘The Great One’ Gretsky scored eight goals for the second time in his National Hockey League (NHL) career. Edmonton’s Oilers defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8.
1999 16 people were killed and 25 injured when gunmen opened fire on Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
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On January 5
1643 Anne Clark granted the first legal divorce in the American colonies.
1781 Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold.
1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovers a type of radiation that later becomes known as "X-rays."
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1920 Boston Red Sox trade Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
1925 Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming. She was the first female governor in the U.S.
1933 Construction begins on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1934 Both the National and American baseball leagues decided to use a uniform-size baseball. It was the first time in 33 years that both leagues used the same size ball.
1964 For the first time in 500 years, a meeting occurs between a Roman Catholic pontiff (Pope Paul VI) and an Eastern Orthodox patriarch (Athenagoras of Jerusalem).
1970 "All My Children" premiered on ABC.
1972 President Richard Nixon signs a $5.5 billion bill approving the building and testing of the NASA space shuttle.
1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd was an admitted child sex killer.
1998 U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.
2002 A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a small plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about to begin a flying lesson when he took off without permission and without an instructor.
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On January 7
1610 Italian scientist Galileo discovers three moons orbiting Jupiter. (He will discover a fourth moon weeks later.)
1782 The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. It was the first commercial bank in the United States.
1785 First "successful" balloon flight across the English Channel. (Both pilots are forced to throw all their belongings -- including their clothes -- into the Channel when their hydrogen balloon begins to leak before reaching the coast of France.)
1896 The "Fannie Farmer Cookbook" was published.
1927 Transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day.
1953 President Truman announces the U.S. has developed the hydrogen bomb.
1959 The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1990 The Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public. The accelerated rate of "leaning" raised fears for the safety of its visitors.
1993 Secondhand smoke is identified as a proven carcinogen in a report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency.
1996 One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
1998 Former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1999 President Clinton went on trial before the Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
2002 Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates introduced a new device code named Mira. The device was tablet-like and was a cross between a handheld computer and a TV remote control.
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On January 8
1815 The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1908 A catastrophic train collision occurred in a smoke-filled Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City. Seventeen were killed and thirty-eight were injured. The accident caused a public outcry and increased demand for electric trains.
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presents to Congress his "Fourteen Points" to preserve peace in Europe after World War I. While he is subsequently unable to obtain Allied support for the majority of his proposals, Wilson will win the Noble Peace Prize in 1920 for his peace efforts.
1957 Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball in an article that appeared in LOOK magazine.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
1973 A trial opened in Washington of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, DC.
1982 U.S. Telephone system is opened to competition when American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) company is broken up. AT&T agrees to give up 22 local Bell System companies representing 80 percent of the company's assets.
1982 Dow Jones first tops 2000.
1992 President George Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
1994 Tonya Harding won the ladies U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack.
1997 Mister Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1998 Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.
1999 The top two executives of Salt Lake City's Olympic Organizing Committee resigned amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee.
1999 British Prime Minister Tony Blair concluded a three-day visit to South Africa.
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On January 10
1776 Thomas Paine's 50-page pamphlet,Common Sense, is published.
1840 The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain.
1863 The "Metro," the world's first underground railroad/subway, opens to the public in London.
1878 California Senator A.A. Sargent introduces the Susan B. Anthony (women's suffrage) Amendment to Congress. The amendment won't be signed into law for another 42 years.
1911 Major Jimmie Erickson took the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, CA.
1946 The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
1951 Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
1969 The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post appeared after 147 years of publication.
1971 "Masterpiece Theatre" premieres on PBS.
1986 The uncut version of Jerome Kern’s musical, "Showboat", opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
1998 Michelle Kwan wins the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship, Tara Lipinski finishes second. A month later the two skaters will compete again in the Nagano Winter Olympics with different results: Lipinski wins the gold medal, Kwan the silver.
2000 It was announced that AOL and Time Warner were merging. It was the largest media deal in U.S. history priced at $111 billion. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the deal on December 14, 2000.
2001 American Airlines agreed to acquire most of Trans World Airlines (TWA) assets for about $500 million. The deal brought an end to the financially troubled TWA.
2002 In France, the "Official Journal" reported that all women could get the morning-after contraception pill for free in pharmacies.
2003 North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
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On January 11
1878 In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1902 Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
1922 At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
1935 Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1958 "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years.
1980 Nigel Short, age 14, from Bolton in Britain, became the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
1988 Vice President George Bush met with representative of independent counsel, Lawrence E. Walsh, to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
1991 An auction of silver and paintings that had been acquired by the late Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, brought in a total of $20.29 million at Christie's in New York.
1996 Ryutaro Hashimoto become Japan's prime minister. He replaced Tomiichi Murayama who had resigned on January 5, 1996.
2000 The merger between AOL and Time Warner was approved by the U.S. government with restrictions.
2000 The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorative stamp in a ceremony at The Wall.
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On January 13
1559 Queen Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1794 President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.
1898 French writer Emile Zola publishes his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French judiciary of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason. Dreyfus had been convicted of treason for selling the Germans military secrets.
1942 Henry Ford patents the construction for plastic automobiles.
1966 Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, Samantha, on "Bewitched," had a baby. The baby's name was Tabitha.
1984 Wayne Gretsky extended his consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.
1989 Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possession of an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he claimed were about to rob him. He was freed the following September.
1990 Taking the oath of office, Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the first African-American governor in the United States.
1992 Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
1998 NBC agreed to pay almost $13 million for each episode of the TV show E.R. It was the highest amount ever paid for a TV show.
1999 Michael Jordan announced his retirement from the Chicago Bulls.
2002 The exhibit "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. More than 100 artists supplied the collection of 120 works of art.
2002 Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the two countries.
2002 U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.
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On January 14
1639 Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted.
1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
1914 Henry Ford announced the newest advance in assembly line production of cars. The new method reduced assembly time of a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
1973 "Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii" live concert attracts the largest worldwide television audience.
1973 By beating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, the Miami Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated and have a perfect season.
1985 Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments.
1990 "The Simpsons" premieres on television.
1994 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
1998 In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme that slows the aging process and cell death.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
1999 The impeachment trial of President Clinton began in Washington DC.
1999 The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people.
2000 A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2002 NBC's "Today" celebrated its 50th anniversary on television.
2002 Actor Brad Renfro, 19, was arrested after being stopped on a traffic violation. He was charged with public intoxication and driving without a license.
2004 In St. Louis, a Lewis and Clark Exhibition opened at the Missouri History Museum. The exhibit featured 500 rare and priceless objects used by the Corps of Discovery.
It's interesting and sometimes surprising to go back and read of many of these things which happened in history. Some I had totally forgotten about, and some I don't ever remember hearing about. Reading what happened back in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, is really interesting, especially with regards to things having to do with our country.
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On January 15
1559 England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1844 The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1870 The donkey is first used to represent the Democratic Party in a "Harper's Weekly" cartoon.
1943 The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building. The Pentagon, located just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA, covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors.
1953 Harry S. Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell address as he left office.
1967 The first Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10.
1973 President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason.
1974 "Happy Days" premieres on television.
1987 Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of Top Gun.
1998 NASA announces that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, will be part of the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery mission's crew, making him the oldest man to fly in space.
1998 Lance Carvin, a stalker of Howard Stern was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.
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On January 17
1806 James Madison Randolph, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House.
1893 Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
1900 Mormon, Brigham Roberts, was denied a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because he practiced polygamy.
1934 New York Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with an $18,000 contract.
1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
1955 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched on its first test run. Two years later, it will be the first submarine to remain submerged for two weeks.
1966 A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refueling tanker. The bombs were released and eight crew members were killed.
1991 Operation Desert Storm is launched against Iraq.
1994 The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.
1997 A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
1998 President Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against him. He was the first U.S. President to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil lawsuit.
2001 Congo's President Laurent Kabila was shot and killed during a coup attempt. Congolese officials temporarily placed Kabila's son in charge of the government.
2002 It was announced that Microsoft had signed a joint venture agreement to produce software with two partners in China. The two partners were Beijin Centergate Technologies (Holding) Co. and the Stone Group.
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On January 20
1885 The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson of Coney Island, NY.
1887 The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
1929 "In Old Arizona" is released. It is the first full-length talking movie to be filmed outdoors.
1937 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
1942 *bleep* officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his fourth consecutive term of office. He will die three months later. In 1947, the twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will limit future presidents to only two terms of office.
1961 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated for his first -- and tragically only -- term of office as the President of the United States.
1981 U.S. hostages, held captive in Iran for 444 days, are released just minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the fortieth president of the United States.
1985 The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers downed the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commercials sold for a million dollars a minute.
1986 France and England announce plans to build the "Chunnel" - a rail tunnel that will run underneath the English Channel.
1994 Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out.
1996 Yasir Arafat, with 88 percent of the vote, becomes the first democratically-elected leader of the Palestinian people.
1997 Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States.
1998 American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk.
2000 Greece and Turkey signed five accords aimed to build confidence between the two nations.
2002 Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) played his first game in Chicago as a visiting player. The Wizards beat the Bulls 77-69.
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On January 24
1848 Gold is discovered in California. Few initially believe the claim, and the "California Gold Rush" won't truly begin until President James K. Polk confirms the discovery in December -- 11 months later.
1908 In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
1924 The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.
1955 The rules committee of major league baseball announced a plan to strictly enforce the rule that required a pitcher to release the ball within 20 seconds after taking his position on the mound.
1962 Jackie Robinson is the first black baseball player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.
1978 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.
1984 Changing the computer industry forever, the Apple Macintosh is unveiled.
1986 The Voyager 2 space probe comes within 51,000 miles of Uranus, giving scientists their best-ever look at the distant planet.
1987 In Lebanon, gunmen kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh. They were all later released.
1989 Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
1995 The prosecution gave its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1996 The FDA approves Olestra, a no-calorie, no-fat cooking oil.
1996 Polish Premier, Jozef Oleksy, resigned due to allegations that he had spied for Moscow.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law that limited the contributions that individuals could donate to a candidate during a single election.
2002 John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
2003 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom Ridge.
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On January 30
1798 The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives was witnessed by legislators. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
1815 The United States purchases Thomas Jefferson's library as the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Jefferson's more than 6,000 books help replace those burned by the British during the War of 1812.
1862 The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
1933 "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
1948 Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi. The political and spirtual leader of India's independence movement, Ghandhi staged numerous nonviolent -- and highly effective -- protests against British authority. His assassin, a Hindu fanatic, objected to Gandhi's tolerance for the Muslims.
1958 The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport was 1,435 feet.
1972 In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "*bleep* Sunday."
1973 G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, former President Nixon reelection campaign members, are convicted of breaking into and illegally tapping Democratic Party headquarters (Watergate hotel).
1981 Nearly 2 million New Yorkers turn out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days before being released January 20.
1994 Peter Leko became the world's youngest-ever grand master in chess.
1995 Kevin Eubanks takes over for Branford Marsalis as bandleader on "The Tonight Show."
1995 Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced that clinical trials had demonstrated the effectiveness of the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anemia.
1997 A New Jersey judge ruled that the unborn child of a female prisoner must have legal representation. He denied the prisoner bail reduction to enable her to leave the jail and obtain an abortion.
2002 Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars.
2002 Japan's last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.
2002 In Los Angeles, 15 students and 3 adults were injured when they were hit by a car.
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Here we are in February already! There's so many interesting things to learn, remember, and share about things that took place in history. I hope February proves to be a great and fantastic month for everyone! :)
On February 1
1790 The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.
1861 Texas becomes the seventh state (out of an eventual eleven) to secede from the Union. Texas will be the last state to be readmitted, March 30, 1870.
1862 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe, was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
1884 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
1913 Grand Central Station opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.
1960 Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.
1965 While protesting against voter discrimination, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of others are arrested in Selma, Alabama.
1974 "Good Times" becomes the first spin-off of a spin-off in TV history. The Norman Lear CBS sitcom is a spin-off of "Maude," a spin-off of "All in the Family."
1976 "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real-life divorce.
1978 Harriet Tubman becomes the first African-American woman honored with a U.S. postage stamp.
1979 Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery.
1994 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.
1996 The Chicago Bulls win their 17th straight game and improve to a 40-3 record. With the victory, the Bulls surpass the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers (39-3) for most wins with just three losses in NBA history.
1996 Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.
2001 Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.
2003 NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
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On February 5
1846 The North American Pacific coast's first newspaper, The Oregon Spectator, goes to press.
1900 The U.S. and Britain sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build a canal in Nicaragua, but not the right fortify it.
1922 Reader's Digest magazine is first published.
1937 President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan failed.
1953 Peter Pan, Walt Disney's 14th animated feature, premieres at New York City's Roxy Theater.
1953 For the second straight year, "I Love Lucy" wins the Emmy Award for Best Situation Comedy.
1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49.
1988 General Manuel Noriega is indicted by a federal jury in Miami, Florida, on drug trafficking charges. The de facto dictator of Panama will be found guilty and sentenced to 40 years in federal prison in 1992.
1994 White separatist, Byron De La Beckwith, was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1997 Investment bank, Morgan Stanley, announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
1999 Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release.
2001 It was announced the Kelly Ripa would be Regis Philbin's cohost. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly."
2001 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation.
2003 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the U.N. concerning Iraq's material breach of U.N. Resolution 1441.
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In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; it ricocheted into his home. He staggered 9 meters (30 feet) before collapsing. He died at a local hospital 50 minutes later.
In 1994, 30 years after the two previous trials had failed to reach a verdict, De La Beckwith was brought to trial based on new evidence. Bobby DeLaughter was the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy.[3] De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing (he was imprisoned on an unrelated charge from 1977 to 1980). De La Beckwith appealed unsuccessfully, and died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.
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2008 U.S.A. Tornadoes Kill 54 people across the South 5th February, 2008 : The worst tornadoes in over two decades strikes 5 states in the south including the worst hit Tennessee with over 30 reported dead , Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
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U.S. 1917 U.S.A. Immigration Act 5th February, 1917 : Congress passes the Immigration Act which required a literacy test for immigrants and barred Asiatic laborers, except for those from countries with special treaties or agreements with the United States, such as the Philippines.
U.S. 1952 U.S.A. Don’t Walk Tuesday, 5th February, 1952 : The first “Don’t Walk” sign was installed in New York City . The installation of this sign was inspired by the growing number of deaths resulting from pedestrian accidents. The use of these pedestrian traffic signs are still used today in order to make streets safer.
U.S. 1953 U.S.A. Steel Industry 5th February, 1953 : The United States steel industry was reported as thriving-or reviving perhaps. The need for steel had dramatically increased during World War II and in the year 1953 the need for steel still continued.
U.S. 1974 U.S.A. Patty Hearst 5th February, 1974: Patty Hearst is Kidnapped by the leftist group, The Symbionese Liberation Army
U.S. 1988 U.S.A. Drug Smuggling 5th February, 1988 : Panama leader General Manual Antonio Noriega, along with 16 associates, was charged of drug smuggling and money laundering. Noriega himself had been in charge of smuggling marijuana into the United States and assisting a cocaine drug cartel.
Before it was known that Noriega was caught handling mass drug dealings, he was known to be a promising military student. He even secured a position within the CIA, which later he was fired from as one consequence of leading drug rings.
United States 2008United States C.I.A. has admitted to 'waterboarding' terror suspects 5th February, 2008 : The C.I.A. has admitted to 'waterboarding' terror suspects. The C.I.A. director Michael Hayden has told Congress that it has only been used on three people, and not for the past five years. He said that the technique was used on high-profile al-Qaeda detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Waterboarding has been condemned as a torture by a number of rights groups. Mr. Hayden was speaking when the National Intelligence Director, Mike McConnell, was presenting his annual threat assessment.
Panama 2012 Panama Manuel Noriega Sent to Hospital 5th February, 2012 : The imprisoned ex-leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega, was taken from prison to a hospital after authorities thought he may have suffered a stroke. Doctors indicated that their tests did not show evidence of a stroke.
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2008 U.S.A. Tornadoes Kill 54 people across the South 5th February, 2008 : The worst tornadoes in over two decades strikes 5 states in the south including the worst hit Tennessee with over 30 reported dead , Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
That was a horrendous year, for sure. And the weather still seems mixed up.
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On February 6
1778 The United States gained official recognition from France as the two nations signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
1865 General Robert E. Lee is appointed commander-in-chief of the Confederacy armies.
1926 The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.
1932 Dog sled racing happened for the first time in Olympic competition.
1943 Having left the Tommy Dorsey Band four months prior, Frank Sinatra makes his vocalist debut on the radio show, "Your Hit Parade."
1952 Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him.
1971 NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf *bleep* on the surface of the moon.
1972 Over 500,000 pieces of irate mail arrived at the mailroom of CBS-TV, when word leaked out that an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, "The Demand," would be shown.
1987 President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day, and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
1995 Robert Holland, Jr. is named the new Ben & Jerry's CEO after the Vermont ice cream company holds a "Yo! I Want To Be A CEO!" search.
1998 Washington National Airport was renamed for Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by President Clinton.
1999 King Hussein of Jordan transferred full political power to his oldest son, the Crown Prince Abdullah.
1999 Heavy fighting resumed along the common border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
2000 Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Grozny, Chechnya. The capital city had been under the control of Chechen rebels.
2000 In Finland, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen became the first woman to be elected president.
2000 U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
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On February 7
1882 The last bare knuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.
1893 Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.
1904 The Great Baltimore Fire begins as a small fire in the city's business district. Over the course of the next 30 hours, though, strong winds will spread the flames until the fire covers over 80 blocks.
1936 A Vice President’s flag was established by executive order.
1941 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Frank Sinatra recorded "Everything Happens to Me".
1943 The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.
1964 The Beatles arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport to thousands of screaming American fans.
1983 Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, swears in Elizabeth Dole, the first female Secretary of Transportation.
1984 Astronaut Bruce McCandless takes the first-ever untethered "space walk." He travels 320 feet away from the space shuttle with the help of his Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1985 Sports Illustrated released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.
1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of the Big Apple.
1989 Both houses of Congress vote against their scheduled 51-percent pay increase.
1992 The European Union is formally established with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union in the Netherlands.
1999 King Hussein of Jordan died. His son was sworn in as king four hours after the announcement that his father had died.
2000 Robert Pickett, 47, fired several shots at the White House near the South Lawn. He was subdued after being shot in the knee. No one else was hurt in the incident.
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On February 8
1587 Mary, the Queen of Scots, was executed.
1887 The Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, MN, became the first ski club in the United States.
1910 William Boyce founds The Boy Scouts of America in Washington, DC.
1915 D.W. Griffith's epic film, The Birth of a Nation, premieres in Los Angeles. It will go on to gross $50 million - the first movie to do so.
1924 The first U.S. execution to make use of gas took place in Nevada State Prison.
1963 The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
1969 The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" is published.
1973 U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1974 After 84 days in orbit (the longest U.S. space mission), Skylab 4 and its three astronauts return safely to earth.
1980 President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.
1985 "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television.
1998 In Nagano, Japan, Finland defeats Sweden, 6-0, in the first women's Olympic ice hockey game in history.
2002 The exhibit "Places of Their Own" opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The works displayed were by Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Emily Carr.
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On February 11
1858 A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.
1892 Pike's Peak (Colorado) is set aside as a forest preserve.
1922 Insulin is discovered by Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best.
1937 General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, thereby ending the current sit-down strike against them.
1942 The comic book, "Archie" makes its debut.
1945 During World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1960 Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show," with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a four-minute joke from the show the night before.
1968 The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially opened in New York. This was the fourth Garden.
1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female leader of a British political party when she is elected leader of the Conservative Party.
1979 Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers.
1984 The tenth Space Shuttle mission returned to Earth safely.
1990 After 27 years in prison, South African opposition leader Nelson Mandela is released.
1993 Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
2000 The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made.
2000 Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.
2002 The six stars on NBC's "Friends" signed a deal for $24 million each for the ninth and final season of the series.
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1849 The first photograph of a U.S. President was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture.
1876 Alexander Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone.
1895 Oscar Wilde's final play, The Importance of Being Earnest, opened at the St. James Theatre in London.
1899 The U.S. Congress approved Voting machines for use in federal elections.
1903 The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1912 Arizona is admitted into the Union.
1920 The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. Its first president was Maude Wood Park.
1929 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters, who were rivals of Al Capone, were killed.
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the world middleweight title.
1962 First lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on TV.
1979 Twenty-year-old rookie, Don Maloney, of the New York Rangers, scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It came on his first NHL shot.
1980 The 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York. It is the second time the small upstate hamlet has hosted the Games, the first time being in 1932.
1984 Six-year-old Stormie Jones undergoes the first ever heart-liver transplant.
1988 At 50 years of age, Bobby Allison becomes the oldest driver to win the Daytona 500.
1996 Texas Senator Phil Gramm bows out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
1997 Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery begin a series of space walks that are required to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.
2002 The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan bill. The bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate, would ban millions of unregulated money that goes to the national political parties.
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On February 16
1857 The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.
1862 During the U.S. Civil War, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.
1923 Howard Carter unsealed the tomb of Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun.
1938 Congress creates the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation in order to protect farmers from poor crop output due to bad weather.
1946 The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut.
1959 Having overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista after legal means to remove the Cuban government failed, Fidel Castro names himself premier of Cuba.
1960 The nuclear-powered submarine, U.S.S. Triton, begins its trip around the world -- the first submerged submarine to take such a journey. It will travel 41,500 miles in 84 days, completing the global trek on April 24.
1968 Haleyville, Alabama, launches the first 911 emergency telephone system to be used in the United States.
1972 Los Angeles Laker Wilt Chamberlain topped the 30,000-point mark in his career during a game against the Phoenix Suns.
1980 American speed-skater Eric Heiden wins his second Olympic gold medal of the Lake Placid games. He will go on to win 5 golds, setting Olympic records in 4 events, and a world record in the fifth.
1989 Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.
1992 During the halftime ceremony of a Lakers-Celtics game at the Great Western Forum in LA, Magic Johnson becomes the fifth Los Angeles Laker to have his number retired.
1999 Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death.
1999 Kurds seized embassies and held hostages across Europe following Turkey's arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
2003 In Chicago, IL, 21 people were killed in a night club after a disturbance on the second floor. The panic that evolved resulted in the trampling.
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On February 18
1841 The first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11th.
1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time.
1907 The United States sends 600,000 tons of grain to Russia to help relieve the country's widespread famine.
1930 Claude W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
1932 Sonja Henie won her 6th world women’s figure skating title in Montreal, Canada.
1953 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz signed a contract worth $8,000,000 to continue the "I Love Lucy" TV show through 1955.
1972 The California Supreme Court struck down the state's death penalty.
1977 Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter, is attached to the top of a 747 jumbo jet and given its first test in "captive mode." There will be four similar tests to follow before the orbiter is finally released to land on its own.
1978 Chevy Chase returns to Saturday Night Live as the show's host for the evening -- the first former-SNL player to do so.
1984 At Madison Square Garden, former New York Knickerbocker Bill Bradley has his uniform No. 24 retired.
1987 The executives of the Girl Scout movement decided to change the color of the scout uniform from the traditional Girl Scout green to the newer Girl Scout blue.
1998 In Russia, money shortages resulted in the shutting down of three plants that produced nuclear weapons.
1998 In Nevada, two white separatists were arrested and accused of plotting a bacterial attack on subways in New York City.
1999 George Clooney hangs up his scrubs for the last time on "ER".
2000 The U.S. Commerce Department reported a deficit in trade goods and services of $271.3 billion for 1999. It was the largest calender-year trade gap in U.S. history.
2001 NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.
2003 In South Korea, at least 120 people were killed when a man lit a fire on a subway train.
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On February 20
1725 The first known Indian scalping by white men was reported in the New Hampshire colony.
1792 A permanent Postal Service is established when President George Washington signs the Postal Service Act.
1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1952 The African Queen opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
1952 Emmett L. Ashford became the first black umpire in organized baseball. He was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.
1962 Aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
1962 John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the 1st American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1965 Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
1985 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British leader to address Congress since Winston Churchill, endorsing President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
1987 A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1991 At the Grammy Awards, Quincy Jones is the big winner with six awards, giving him more career Grammys than any other individual in pop music.
1993 Two ten-year-old boys were charged by police in Liverpool, England, in the abduction and death of a toddler. The two boys were later convicted.
1997 The Galileo spacecraft captures possible evidence of liquid water beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa.
1998 American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
2001 FBI Agent Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for the Russians for 15 years.
2002 In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire raced through a train killing at least 370 people and injuring at least 65.
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On February 22
1630 Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1819 Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
1860 Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, California.
1865 In the U.S., Tennessee adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery.
1879 Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store in Utica, New York.
1924 The first radio broadcast from the White House is aired. President Calvin Coolidge delivers the speech that is heard live on over 40 radio stations nationwide.
1935 Because they are disturbing President Roosevelt's sleep, all air flights over the White House are permanently rerouted.
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman to win a U.S. thoroughbred horse race.
1980 The "Miracle on Ice" - The underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team stuns the world by defeating the heavily-favored Soviet Union squad, 4-3, to advance to the Gold Medal round.
1984 The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the State of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade, with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.
1993 After much speculation, CBS announces that David Letterman will remain in New York. (Many had speculated that Letterman might move to L.A.). Letterman's new CBS show will broadcast from the old Ed Sullivan Theater.
1994 The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.
1995 Steve Fossett lands in Saskatchewan, Canada, after flying across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. The four-day trip that began in South Korea sets a new distance ballooning record.
1997 Scottish scientist, Ian Wilmut and colleagues, announced that an adult sheep was successfully cloned. Dolly, the first to be born, was born in July 1996.
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On February 28
1854 The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI.
1922 After 40 years of occupation, Great Britain grants independence to Egypt, but retains the Suez Canal.
1933 Francis Perkins is appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor, becoming the first female cabinet member in American history.
1940 The first televised basketball game is aired from Madison Square Garden featuring Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh.
1951 A Senate committee issued a report that stated that there were at least two major crime syndicates in the U.S.
1960 The United States wins the Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia, 9-4.
1962 The John Glenn for President Club was formed by a group of Las Vegas republicans.
1974 The U.S. and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a break of seven years.
1979 Mr. Ed, the talking horse, died. (I loved that show!)
1983 "M*A*S*H" became the most watched television program in history when the final episode aired.
1993 A gun battle erupts in Waco, Texas, when U.S. Federal agents raid the Branch Davidian Compound housed by David Koresh and his followers. Four agents and six Davidians are killed, and a 51-day standoff follows.
1997 Vancouver Canucks Captain Mark Messier becomes the 4th NHL player to reach 1,600 career points.
2001 The Northwest region of the U.S., including the state of Washington, was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. There were no deaths reported.
2001 In Ahmadabad, India, Hindus set fire to homes in a Muslim neighborhood. At least 55 people were killed in the attack.
2002 Sotheby's auction house announced that it had identified Peter Paul Reubens as the creator of the painting "The Massacre of the Innocents." The painting was previously thought to be by Jan van den Hoecke.
2002 It was announced that John Madden would be replacing Dennis Miller on "Monday Night Football." Madden signed a four-year $20 million deal with ABC Sports.
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Though DNA--short for deoxyribonucleic acid--was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn't demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure of DNA. California chemist Linus Pauling suggested an incorrect model at the beginning of 1953, prompting Watson and Crick to try and beat Pauling at his own game. On the morning of February 28, they determined that the structure of DNA was a double-helix polymer, or a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, wound around each other. According to their findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double helix. In his best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968), Watson later claimed that Crick announced the discovery by walking into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out that "we had found the secret of life." The truth wasn’t that far off, as Watson and Crick had solved a fundamental mystery of science--how it was possible for genetic instructions to be held inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick's solution was formally announced on April 25, 1953, following its publication in that month’s issue of Nature magazine. The article revolutionized the study of biology and medicine. Among the developments that followed directly from it were pre-natal screening for disease genes; genetically engineered foods; the ability to identify human remains; the rational design of treatments for diseases such as AIDS; and the accurate testing of physical evidence in order to convict or exonerate criminals.
Crick and Watson later had a falling-out over Watson's book, which Crick felt misrepresented their collaboration and betrayed their friendship. A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of research done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, whose colleague Maurice Wilkins showed her X-ray photographic work to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery. When Crick and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they shared it with Wilkins. Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough
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Though DNA--short for deoxyribonucleic acid--was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn't demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure of DNA. California chemist Linus Pauling suggested an incorrect model at the beginning of 1953, prompting Watson and Crick to try and beat Pauling at his own game. On the morning of February 28, they determined that the structure of DNA was a double-helix polymer, or a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, wound around each other. According to their findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double helix. In his best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968), Watson later claimed that Crick announced the discovery by walking into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out that "we had found the secret of life." The truth wasn’t that far off, as Watson and Crick had solved a fundamental mystery of science--how it was possible for genetic instructions to be held inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick's solution was formally announced on April 25, 1953, following its publication in that month’s issue of Nature magazine. The article revolutionized the study of biology and medicine. Among the developments that followed directly from it were pre-natal screening for disease genes; genetically engineered foods; the ability to identify human remains; the rational design of treatments for diseases such as AIDS; and the accurate testing of physical evidence in order to convict or exonerate criminals.
Crick and Watson later had a falling-out over Watson's book, which Crick felt misrepresented their collaboration and betrayed their friendship. A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of research done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, whose colleague Maurice Wilkins showed her X-ray photographic work to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery. When Crick and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they shared it with Wilkins. Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough
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Here we are in March, already! Hope everyone has a wonderful month and earns that extra cash for whatever you may need it for! :)
** On March 1 **
1692 The Salem Witch Hunt begins as Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
1781 In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1872 Yellowstone becomes the world’s first National Park.
1907 In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.
1912 Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1913 Federal income tax takes effect in the United States as per the 16th amendment.
1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr., twenty-month-old son of the famous American aviator, is kidnapped from the nursery of the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, New Jersey.
1937 The first permanent automobile license plates are issued in Connecticut.
1950 Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1966 Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collides with the planet Venus. Although the mission is unsuccessful, it is the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.
1969 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from Major League Baseball.
1971 A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the Vietnam War claimed responsibility.
1974 Seven people are indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice.
2000 Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.
2003 In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17, 2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had surrendered and plead innocent in connection to the theft. The mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion.
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On March 5
1750 King Richard III was performed in New York City. It was the first Shakespearean play to be presented in America.
1770 "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.
1868 The U.S. Senate was organized into a court of impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1910 In Philadelphia, PA, 60,000 people left their jobs to show support for striking transit workers.
1918 The Soviets move the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
1922 Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.
1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation becomes IBM.
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.
1943 Germany called fifteen and sixteen year olds for military service due to war losses.
1946 Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain Speech.”
1953 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin passes away.
1956 The United States Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools.
1970 A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after 43 nations ratify it.
1982 Comedian John Belushi dies of a drug overdose at the age of 33.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities had the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
1985 Mike Bossy, of the New York Islanders, became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.
1993 Cuban President Fidel Castro said that Hillary Clinton is "a beautiful woman."
1993 Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
1997 North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years for peace talks.
1997 Chuck Niles received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
1998 It was announced that Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins would lead crew of Columbia on a mission to launch a large X-ray telescope. She was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
2004 Martha Stewart was found guilty of lying about the reason for selling 3,298 shares of ImClone Systems stock, conspiracy, making false statement and obstruction of justice.
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On May 8:
1794 The United States Post Office was established.
1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, Texas.
1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1933 Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1943 The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1958 U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1967 Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1973 Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1978 David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to six murder charges. He was known as the "Son of Sam".
1984 The Soviet Union announced it would not participate in the Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1985 "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
1986 Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1998 A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.
1999 The first female cadet graduated from the Citadel military school.
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May 11
1858
Minnesota became the 32nd state.
1894
Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.)
1904
Artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain.
1910
Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1947
The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
1949
Israel was admitted to the United Nations.
1949
Siam changed its named to Thailand.
1981
Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36.
1996
A ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board
1997
The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.
1998
India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998
A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.
2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government. (He was succeeded by Conservative David Cameron.)
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On May 8:
1794 The United States Post Office was established.
1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, Texas.
1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1933 Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1943 The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1958 U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1967 Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1973 Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1978 David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to six murder charges. He was known as the "Son of Sam".
1984 The Soviet Union announced it would not participate in the Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1985 "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
1986 Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1998 A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.
1999 The first female cadet graduated from the Citadel military school.
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On May 14
1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1787 Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1811 Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1897 "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
1897 Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.
1904 For the first time Olympic games were held in the U.S in St. Louis.
1940 The Netherlands surrendered to *bleep* Germany.
1948 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
1955 The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union.
1961 A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama.
1973 Skylab One was launched as the first U.S. manned space station.
1975 U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1980 U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.
1992 Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.
1998 The TV series "Seinfeld" signed off after nine years on NBC.
1999 North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.
1999 Jess Marlow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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May 15:
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.
1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.
1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.
1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.
1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.
1964 - The Smothers Brothers, *bleep* and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.
1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.
1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.
1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.
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May 15:
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.
1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.
1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.
1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.
1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.
1964 - The Smothers Brothers, *bleep* and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.
1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.
1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.
1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.
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Joan of Arc martyred, 1431
American Revolution Patriot and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson, 1806
Automotive First Indianapolis 500 held, 1911
Civil WarConfederates evacuate Corinth, Mississippi,1862
Cold WarGorbachev arrives in Washington for summit, 1990
Crime Jonathan Levin is tortured and killed by his former student,1997
Disaster Waters of Kentucky River peak,1927
General InterestAndrew Jackson wins duel,1806
Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day,1868
Republic of Biafra proclaimed,1967
Mariner 9 departs for Mars, 1971
Hollywood-Sex and the City movie released, 2008
Literary-Christopher Marlowe killed in tavern brawl, 1593
Music-Lesley Gore sings "It's My Party" on American Bandstand, 1963
Old West-Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach, 1899
Presidential-Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in duel,1806
Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial,1922
Sports-First Indianapolis 500 is run, 1911
Vietnam War-U.S. aircraft carry out new raids,1966
Thieu vows never to agree to a coalition government, 1969
World War I-The First Balkan War ends, 1913
World War II-Brits bombard Cologne in Operation Millennium, 1942
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On June 2
1851 Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1883 The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. President to get married while in office.
1897 Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
1924 All American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship by the U.S. Congress.
1928 Nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek captured Peking, China.
1935 George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.
1941 Lou Gehrig died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1953 Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
1966 Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1995 Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.
1997 Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
1999 In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.
2003 In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.
2003 In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus was exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.
2003 William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
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June 5
1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.
1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."
1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.
1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1917 - American men began registering for the World War I draft.
1924 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.
1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.
1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.
1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
1956 - Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
1967 - The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.
1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.
1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.
1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.
1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s "Nightline".
1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
1998 - Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW's $554 million offer.
1998 - C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.
1998 - A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.
2001 - Amazon.com announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.
2004 - The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
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On June 17
1837 Charles Goodyear received a patent for rubber.
1856 The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon.
1876 General George Crook’s command was attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
1950 Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.
1972 Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.
1994 O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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What happened on June 18
o June 18, 0618 "Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China."
o June 18, 1178 Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
o June 18, 1264 "The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature."
o June 18, 1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
o June 18, 1767 "Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island."
o June 18, 1778 American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.
o June 18, 1812 War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
o June 18, 1815 UK hist The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
o June 18, 1816 Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.
o June 18, 1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
o June 18, 1835 UK hist William Cobbett dies
o June 18, 1858 Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
o June 18, 1863 "After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg"
o June 18, 1864 "At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults"
o June 18, 1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
o June 18, 1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
o June 18, 1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
o June 18, 1887 The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
o June 18, 1892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii
o June 18, 1898 "Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ"
o June 18, 1899 The CP line from Lethbridge through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing is opened for traffic. This was built with subsidies afforded by the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897 which also set fixed rates on grain traffic.
o June 18, 1900 "Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families."
o June 18, 1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
o June 18, 1923 Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.
o June 18, 1928 "Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon,mechanic)."
o June 18, 1930 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
o June 18, 1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
o June 18, 1936 "The first bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI"
o June 18, 1940 """Finest Hour"" speech by Winston Churchill."
o June 18, 1940 Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
o June 18, 1940 The French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
o June 18, 1940 The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
o June 18, 1940 "Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that ""this was their finest hour"""
o June 18, 1942 "Bernard W Robinson, becomes first black ensign in US Navy"
o June 18, 1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
o June 18, 1942 James Paul McCartney of The Beatles is born in Liverpool England
o June 18, 1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
o June 18, 1946 "Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim."
o June 18, 1948 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights
o June 18, 1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time
o June 18, 1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
o June 18, 1953 Australian POWs released at Panmunjon
o June 18, 1953 "Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president"
o June 18, 1953 The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
o June 18, 1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
o June 18, 1954 Pierre Mends-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
o June 18, 1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt (British and French forces attempted to seize the Canal)
o June 18, 1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
o June 18, 1959 The First telecast transmitted from England to US
o June 18, 1963 "3,000 blacks boycot Boston public school"
o June 18, 1967 Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
o June 18, 1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
o June 18, 1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
o June 18, 1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
o June 18, 1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
o June 18, 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kenny Rogers - Lucille
o June 18, 1977 "Space Shuttle test model ""Enterprise"" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747"
o June 18, 1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
o June 18, 1980 "Blues Brothers"" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers"
o June 18, 1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
o June 18, 1981 "The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California."
o June 18, 1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride first US woman
o June 18, 1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
o June 18, 1983 Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space.
o June 18, 1984 "Major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave."
o June 18, 1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
o June 18, 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
o June 18, 1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
o June 18, 1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
o June 18, 1996 "Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts."
o June 18, 1999 A global Carnival against Capitalism.
o June 18, 2001 Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
o June 18, 2006 "The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched."
o June 18, 2010 Campbell Soup Co. recalls nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing - USA
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