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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/09 at 6:47 am
I guess.
Normally the Royal Standard is flown when the Monarch is in residence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/09 at 10:07 am
March 7th 1862 β American Civil War: Union forces engaged Confederate troops in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, fighting to a victory one day later that essentially cemented their control in Missouri.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/09 at 3:42 am
March 8th 1983 β The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/09 at 3:42 am
March 8th 1978 β BBC Radio 4 transmitted the first episode of English author and dramatist Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/09 at 3:43 am
March 8th 1782 β American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/08/09 at 6:56 am
1702 England's Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/09 at 6:59 am
March 8th 1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/09/09 at 2:40 am
March 9th 1862 β American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two powered ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/09/09 at 2:40 am
March 9th 1959 β Barbie, the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/09 at 2:44 am
March 10th 1977 β Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, an observatory aboard a highly modified jet aircraft, discovered a faint planetary ring system around Uranus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/09 at 2:44 am
March 10th 1959 β An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, as about 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to prevent the 14th Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/09 at 2:46 am
March 10th 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/11/09 at 2:36 am
March 11th 1966 β In power since World War II, President Sukarno of Indonesia was essentially ousted by Suharto and the military after being forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/11/09 at 2:37 am
March 11th 1851 β Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto was first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/11/09 at 5:59 am
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/11/09 at 5:59 am
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/11/09 at 5:59 am
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/12/09 at 3:52 am
March 12th 1947 β The Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of Communism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/12/09 at 3:53 am
March 12th 1930 – Gandhi began the Dandi March, a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/12/09 at 3:55 am
March 12th 1913 - Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 2:23 am
March 13th 1781 β German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, England, thinking it was a comet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 2:25 am
March 13th 1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 2:32 am
March 13th 1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
...not any more!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/13/09 at 5:50 am
1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 6:13 am
March 13th 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/09 at 5:43 am
March 14th 1994 – Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel, was released, becoming one of the most prominent examples of open source software.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/09 at 9:56 am
March 15th 1985 β The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/09 at 9:56 am
March 15th 1781 β American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/09 at 9:59 am
March 15th 1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/09 at 2:04 am
March 16th 1660 β The Long Parliament, originally called by King Charles I of England in 1640 following the Bishops' Wars, dissolved itself.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/09 at 2:06 am
March 16th 1926 β At the then-Asa Ward Farm in Auburn, Massachusetts, American scientist Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, a 10-foot (3 m) cylinder that reached an altitude of about 41 feet (12 m) and flew for two-and-a-half seconds before falling to the ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/09 at 2:10 am
March 16th 1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/09 at 9:39 am
March 16th 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/09 at 2:49 am
March 17th 1969 β Golda Meir of the Labor Party became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/09 at 2:51 am
March 17th 1958 β Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite, was launched. It is the oldest human-launched object still in Earth orbit today.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/09 at 2:53 am
March 17th 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/09 at 5:05 am
March 18th 1965 β Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov donned a space suit and ventured outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, becoming the first person to walk in space.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/09 at 5:05 am
March 18th 1871 β French President Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the FrancoβPrussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/09 at 5:06 am
March 18th 1892 β Canadian Governor General Frederick Stanley of Preston pledged to donate what would become the Stanley Cup, today the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/18/09 at 5:46 am
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/18/09 at 5:46 am
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/18/09 at 5:47 am
1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen. Case remains unsolved.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/09 at 3:09 am
March 19th 1687 β The search for the mouth of the Mississippi River led by French explorer RenΓ©-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ended with a mutiny and his murder in present-day Texas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/09 at 3:12 am
March 19th 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/09 at 2:27 am
March 20th 1987 β The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) became the first antiviral medication approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/09 at 2:28 am
March 20th 1852 β American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published, profoundly affecting attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, and further intensifying the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/09 at 2:30 am
March 20th 1999 - Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/09 at 3:36 am
March 21st 1556 β Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England for heresy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/09 at 3:37 am
March 21st 1989 β An article in Sports Illustrated alleged that Pete Rose, the Manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was involved in baseball gambling.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/09 at 3:40 am
March 21st 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/22/09 at 4:14 am
March 22nd 1765 β The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British North America carry a tax stamp, adding fuel to the growing separatist movement in the area.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/22/09 at 4:15 am
March 22nd 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/22/09 at 5:13 am
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/22/09 at 5:14 am
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/23/09 at 4:05 am
March 23rd 1868 β Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight signed a law establishing the University of California, today a public university system that is considered a model for public institutions across the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/24/09 at 12:39 pm
March 24th 1934 β The United States Government passed the Tydings-McDuffie Act, establishing the Commonwealth of the Philippines, a ten-year transitional government in preparation for full Philippine independence and sovereignty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/09 at 3:07 am
March 25th 1634 β Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/09 at 3:07 am
March 25th 1807 β The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/09 at 3:08 am
March 25th 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/09 at 3:10 am
March 25th 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/25/09 at 5:51 am
1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/25/09 at 5:51 am
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/25/09 at 5:51 am
1911 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York NY
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/25/09 at 5:52 am
1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/25/09 at 5:52 am
1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/09 at 4:02 am
March 26th 1999 β The Melissa computer worm was released, infecting e-mail systems around the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/09 at 4:02 am
March 26th 1484 β William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/09 at 4:02 am
March 26th 1636 β Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/09 at 4:05 am
March 26th 1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 2:46 am
March 27th 1998 β The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil, better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 2:47 am
March 27th 1851 β Explorer Lafayette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indigenous discoverers of California's Yosemite Valley
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 2:47 am
March 27th 1794 β To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act to establish a naval force of six frigates, which eventually became the United States Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 2:47 am
March 27th 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/27/09 at 5:57 am
1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkirk
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/27/09 at 5:58 am
1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/27/09 at 5:59 am
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/09 at 6:35 am
March 27th 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/28/09 at 4:04 am
March 28th 1979 β British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/28/09 at 4:05 am
March 28th 1979 β A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton to the environment.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/09 at 6:03 am
March 29th 1974 β NASA's Mariner 10, launched in November 1973, became the first spaceprobe to fly by the planet Mercury.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/09 at 6:04 am
March 29th 1911 β The M1911 single-action, semi-automatic pistol developed by American firearms designer John Browning became the standard-issue side arm in the United States Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/29/09 at 6:09 am
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/29/09 at 6:11 am
1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/09 at 1:38 am
March 30th 1981 β Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/09 at 1:38 am
March 30th 1964 β Jeopardy!, the popular game show created by Merv Griffin where contestants must phrase their responses in the form of a question, made its debut on the NBC television network.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/09 at 1:39 am
March 30th 1909 - The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/09 at 1:41 am
March 31st 1917 β The Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands after the United States paid Denmark US$25 million for the Caribbean islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/09 at 1:44 am
March 31st 1778 β English explorer James Cook landed on Vancouver Island and claimed it for Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/09 at 1:53 am
March 31st 1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/31/09 at 5:55 am
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/31/09 at 5:55 am
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 03/31/09 at 5:55 am
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/09 at 11:15 am
April 1st 1293 β Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated by the Pope, only to find that there was none.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/09 at 11:16 am
April 1st 2004 - Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.
...and who believed them on the day?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/09 at 4:46 am
April 2nd 1992 β John Gotti, the crime boss of the Gambino crime family, was convicted of racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling and tax evasion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/09 at 4:47 am
April 2nd 1792 β By the Coinage Act, the United States Mint was founded and the U.S. currency was decimalized.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/02/09 at 6:02 am
1865 Confederate States President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/02/09 at 6:03 am
1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga TN
Jackie Mitchell's glory was short-lived. Within days of the exhibition game, her contract was voided by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis on the basis of gender.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/02/09 at 6:03 am
1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/02/09 at 6:03 am
1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/09 at 6:09 am
April 2nd 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/09 at 2:42 am
April 3rd 1973 – On a New York City street, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper made the first public call on a handheld mobile phone.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/09 at 2:45 am
April 3rd 1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/03/09 at 6:17 am
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/03/09 at 6:18 am
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/09 at 3:26 am
April 4th 1975 β Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/09 at 3:26 am
April 4th 1949 β Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/09 at 3:31 am
April 4th 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/04/09 at 7:34 am
1918 Battle of Somme ends
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/09 at 2:00 am
April 5th 1614 β Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, and was christened Lady Rebecca.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/09 at 2:01 am
April 5th 1566 - Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/06/09 at 1:26 am
April 6th 1896 β The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/06/09 at 1:27 am
April 6th 1830 β Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/06/09 at 1:27 am
April 6th 1886 β Vancouver, one of British Columbia's youngest cities, was incorporated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/09 at 1:36 am
April 7th 1954 β Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the domino theory, speculating that if one nation in a region came under the influence of communism, then its surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/09 at 1:36 am
April 7th 1805 β German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, sometimes cited as marking the beginning of musical Romanticism and the end of the Classical Era, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/09 at 1:40 am
April 7th 1521 β Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/09 at 1:24 am
April 8th 1904 β British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley began transcribing The Book of the Law, a Holy Book in Thelema.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/09 at 1:24 am
April 8th 1093 β Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/09 at 1:56 am
April 9th 1967 β The first Boeing 737 took its maiden flight, eventually becoming the most ordered and produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/09 at 1:56 am
April 9th 1865 β With their supply trains destroyed by Union troops one day earlier, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee finally surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House near the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/09 at 2:00 am
April 9th 1413 β Henry V is crowned King of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/09/09 at 5:44 am
1770 Captain James Cook enters Botany Bay (Australia)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/09/09 at 5:44 am
1833 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough NH)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/09 at 1:41 am
April 10th 1606 β The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was established by Royal Charter by King James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/10/09 at 6:40 am
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 04/10/09 at 6:41 am
1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/09 at 8:56 am
April 10th 1953 β Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/09 at 2:38 am
April 11th 1965 β Almost 50 confirmed tornadoes struck six states in the Midwestern United States during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, killing over 270 people and injuring 1,500 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/09 at 2:40 am
April 11th 1970 β Apollo 13 is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/09 at 2:40 am
April 11th 1976 β The Apple I is created
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/09 at 2:41 am
April 11th 1775 β The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/09 at 1:32 am
April 14th 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/09 at 1:37 am
April 14th 1999 β A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/09 at 1:37 am
April 14th 1912 β The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.35pm in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:47 am
April 15th 1755 β A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:47 am
April 15th 1912 β The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg killing over 1,500 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:48 am
April 15th 1947 β Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:52 am
April 15th 1865 β Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/09 at 1:26 am
April 16th 1912 β American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/09 at 1:27 am
April 16th 1853 β The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay and Thane.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/16/09 at 6:00 am
1746 Battle at Culloden Troops of "James VIII & III" defeat Charles Stuart
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/16/09 at 6:00 am
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/09 at 1:47 am
April 17th 1895 β The Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire of China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki to end the First Sino-Japanese War, with China agreeing to renounce its claims on Korea; cede the Liaodong Peninsula, Penghu and Taiwan to Japan; open various ports and rivers to Japanese trade; and pay Japan a war indemnity of 200 million Kuping taels.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/09 at 1:51 am
April 17th 1964 β The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/09 at 1:52 am
April 17th 1924 β Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/09 at 5:28 am
April 18th 1906 β A major earthquake and resulting fires devastated San Francisco, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving more than half of the city's population homeless.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/09 at 5:29 am
April 18th 1506 β Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, to replace the old St. Peter's Basilica built in the 4th century, began.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/09 at 5:33 am
April 18th 1946 β The League of Nations is dissolved.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/09 at 2:37 am
April 19th 2005 β Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/09 at 2:37 am
April 19th 1775 β The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/09 at 2:39 am
April 19th 1987 β The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/09 at 2:41 am
April 19th 1943 β Bicycle Day β Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/09 at 1:34 am
April 20th 1653 β Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament of the Commonwealth of England by force, eventually replacing it with the Barebone's Parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/09 at 1:35 am
April 20th 1884 β Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Humanum Genus, denouncing Freemasonry, the doctrine of a separation of church and state, and many other principles, some of which are today equated by most people with the founding ones of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/09 at 1:35 am
April 20th 1862 β French chemist Louis Pasteur and physiologist Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/09 at 1:06 am
April 21st 1509 – Henry VIII became King of England, following the death of his father Henry VII, eventually becoming a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:02 am
April 22nd 1889 β Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km2) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma. Within hours, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had established cities of around 10,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:03 am
April 22nd 1889 β Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km2) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma. Within hours, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had established cities of around 10,000 people.
"There's a bright golden haze on the meadow..."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:03 am
April 22nd 1993 β The first version of Mosaic, created by computer programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was released, becoming the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:05 am
April 22nd 1998 β Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/09 at 2:06 am
April 22nd 1500 β Portuguese navigator Pedro Γlvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/09 at 2:04 am
April 23rd 1661 β Charles II was crowned King of England, Ireland, and Scotland at Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/09 at 2:05 am
April 23rd 1961 β Dressed in his 1940s-vintage general's uniform, President Charles de Gaulle delivered a televised speech calling on the military personnel and civilians of France to oppose the Algiers putsch, a coup d'Γ©tat attempt against him.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/09 at 2:05 am
April 23rd 1954 β Batting against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his then-record 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
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Written By: Frank on 04/23/09 at 2:47 pm
April 23rd 1954 β Batting against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his then-record 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
Nice bit of trivia. I clearly remember watching Hank hit home run 715 (then passing babe Ruth) in 1974 (April 8th?)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/09 at 1:17 am
April 24th 1800 β The Library of Congress, today the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/09 at 1:28 am
April 24th 1558 β Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, FranΓ§ois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/09 at 1:30 am
April 24th 1913 β The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/09 at 5:54 am
April 25th 1953 β Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids by molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick was first published in the scientific journal Nature, describing the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA (diagram pictured).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/09 at 5:54 am
April 25th 1719 β Robinson Crusoe, a novel by English author Daniel Defoe about a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, was first published.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/09 at 5:57 am
April 25th 1792 β La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/25/09 at 6:00 am
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/25/09 at 6:01 am
1945 Russian army completely surrounds Berlin
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/09 at 1:52 am
April 26th 1865 β American Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/09 at 1:52 am
April 26th 1986 β The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a fire and a nuclear meltdown, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people around Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/09 at 1:38 am
April 27th 1521 β Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and over forty Spanish soldiers at the Battle of Mactan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/09 at 1:39 am
April 27th 1565 β Conquistador Miguel LΓ³pez de Legazpi and 500 armed soldiers arrived at Cebu and established the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/09 at 1:56 am
April 28th 1611 β The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment, was founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/09 at 1:56 am
April 28th 1923 β London's Wembley Stadium, then known as Empire Stadium, was opened to the public for the first time and held the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/09 at 1:57 am
April 28th 1789 β Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty against its commander William Bligh.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/28/09 at 5:33 am
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/28/09 at 5:33 am
1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/28/09 at 5:34 am
1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 "missing" persons dead
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/09 at 5:38 am
April 29th 1770 β British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour made their first landfall on Australia on the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/09 at 5:39 am
April 29th 1882 β German inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens began operating his Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in a Berlin suburb.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/09 at 5:40 am
April 29th 1968 β The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/09 at 5:42 am
April 29th 1429 β Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/09 at 1:09 am
April 30th 1789 β George Washington took the oath as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/09 at 1:11 am
April 30th 1973 β Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/30/09 at 5:48 am
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/30/09 at 5:48 am
1945
Concentration camp München-Allag freed
Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
Russian Army frees Ravensbrück concentration camp
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/09 at 10:00 am
April 30th 1993 β Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/09 at 1:30 am
May 1st 1840 β The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland first issued the Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/09 at 1:30 am
May 1st 1707 β Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, a single kingdom encompassing the entire island of Great Britain with a single parliament and government based in Westminster.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/09 at 1:32 am
May 1st 1927 β The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/01/09 at 8:19 am
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/09 at 2:16 am
May 2nd 1829 β Captain Charles Fremantle of the Royal Navy established the Swan River Colony, the first British settlement on the west coast of Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/09 at 2:16 am
May 2nd 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on false charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/02/09 at 5:57 am
1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/02/09 at 5:58 am
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/09 at 6:43 am
1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
A day for banning?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/09 at 6:44 am
May 2nd 1952 β The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/09 at 4:00 am
May 3rd 1979 β Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/09 at 4:02 am
May 3rd 1494 β Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/09 at 1:20 am
May 4th 1979 β Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the defeat of James Callaghan's incumbent Labour government in the previous day's general election.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/05/09 at 6:35 am
1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/05/09 at 6:36 am
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/09 at 6:50 am
May 5th: 1789 β The Estates-General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial crisis in France, triggering a series of events that led to the French Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/09 at 6:50 am
May 5th 1640 β King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/09 at 1:22 am
May 6th 1863 β American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, scored a decisive Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/09 at 1:23 am
May 6th 1994 β The Channel Tunnel, a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover connecting Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, France, officially opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/09 at 1:24 am
May 6th 1536 β King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/09 at 2:49 am
May 7th 1824 β Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the KΓ€rntnertortheater in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/09 at 2:50 am
May 7th 1718 β Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the Mississippi Company founded New Orleans, naming the French colonial settlement after Philippe II, Duke of OrlΓ©ans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/09 at 12:45 am
May 8th 1945 β Most armed forces under German control ceased active operations by 23:01 CET at the end of World War II in Europe, in accordance with the German Instrument of Surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl on behalf of ReichsprΓ€sident Karl DΓΆnitz the day before.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/09 at 12:45 am
May 8th 1541 β The expedition led by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto became the first documented Europeans to reach the Mississippi River.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/09 at 12:45 am
May 8th 1886 β In Atlanta, Georgia, American pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his carbonated beverage Coca-Cola as a patent medicine, claiming that it cured a number of diseases.
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Written By: Frank on 05/08/09 at 12:51 am
May 8th 1541 β The expedition led by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto became the first documented Europeans to reach the Mississippi River.
Did somoene mention the Spanish conquistadors?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/09 at 12:53 am
Did somoene mention the Spanish conquistadors?
"Que?"
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Written By: Frank on 05/08/09 at 12:57 am
"Que?"
I'm sorry, he's from Barcelona.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/08/09 at 6:11 am
May 8th 1886 β In Atlanta, Georgia, American pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his carbonated beverage Coca-Cola as a patent medicine, claiming that it cured a number of diseases.
When actually it was the cocaine in the recipe that made people feel soooooo goooooood!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/09 at 7:27 am
When actually it was the cocaine in the recipe that made people feel soooooo goooooood!
...and the headache went away.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/09 at 12:06 am
May 9th 1950 β Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard was first published, describing his self-improvement techniques known as Dianetics, which later became part of the wider subject of Scientology.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/09 at 12:07 am
May 9th 1671 β Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/09 at 5:32 am
10th May 1869 β The golden spike ceremony was held at Promontory Summit, Utah, celebrating the completion of North America's First Transcontinental Railroad between the Missouri and Sacramento Rivers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/09 at 2:09 am
May 11th 1792 β Merchant sea captain Robert Gray first entered the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded European to navigate the largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/09 at 2:04 am
May 12th 1551 β The National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/09 at 2:05 am
May 12th 1958 β Canada and the United States signed a formal agreement establishing the North American Air Defense Command to provide aerospace warning and defense for North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/09 at 2:05 am
May 12th 1588 β French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/12/09 at 9:26 am
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/12/09 at 9:27 am
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/12/09 at 9:27 am
1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/09 at 12:58 am
May 13th 1917 β Our Lady of Fatima: Ten-year-old LΓΊcia Santos and her siblings Francisco and Jacinta Marto reportedly began experiencing a Marian apparition near FΓ‘tima, Portugal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/09 at 12:58 am
May 13th 1846 β The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, starting the MexicanβAmerican War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/09 at 12:59 am
May 13th 1515 β Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon were officially married, at Greenwich.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/09 at 1:00 am
May 13th 1940 β Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Great Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/09 at 7:51 am
May 13th 1619 β Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/09 at 1:52 am
May 14th 1948 β David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the present-day Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, officially establishing a new Jewish state in parts of the former British Mandate of Palestine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/09 at 1:52 am
May 14th 1804 β The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, and began the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/09 at 1:52 am
May 14th 1796 β English scientist Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a vaccine for protection against smallpox.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/14/09 at 5:41 am
1842 1st edition of London Illustrated News
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/09 at 2:02 am
May 15th 1602 β English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold became the first known European to discover Cape Cod.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/09 at 2:02 am
May 15th 1928 β Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debut in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/09 at 2:18 am
May 16th 1975 β Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, Sikkim abolished its monarchy and was annexed by India, becoming its 22nd state.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/09 at 2:18 am
May 16th 1929 β The first ceremony of the Academy Awards were held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/09 at 2:19 am
May 16th 1532 β Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/09 at 2:19 am
May 16th 1568 β Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/09 at 5:33 am
1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/09 at 5:34 am
1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/09 at 5:36 am
1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam