Today is Saturday, February third, the 34th day of 2007



Today

1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.

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A sad day indeed, and I can never remember the name of the pilot of the plane.

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A sad day indeed, and I can never remember the name of the pilot of the plane.



Roger Peterson

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1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race.




...but not sex, women weren't granted constitutional right until 1920.

1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.



I remember that day.  Luckily, there was soon a resurrection.

1864 Sherman's march through Georgia

1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours

1951 Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo" premieres in New York NY

1964 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold

1967 "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix

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A sad day indeed, and I can never remember the name of the pilot of the plane.


Did you ever see the movie La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips?

Did you ever see the movie La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips?
I totally missed out on that movie.

I totally missed out on that movie.


I thought LDP portrayed a great Ritchie Valens

1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America.
1862 - Bacardi, one of the world's largest spirits company, is founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba in eastern Cuba.
1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
1945 - World War II: The Yalta Conference begin
1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac releases one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Rumours.
1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
1997 - O.J. Simpson is found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2007 - Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are the first African American head coaches in the National Football League's Super Bowl.

February 04 1899 - The Philippine-American War begins.

Today is Sunday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2007



Today

February 05, 1924 - Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC.

Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2007



Today

On this day...


1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.

February 06, 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.

On this day...


1918 Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote

1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL 

1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash

1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2007



Today

February 7


1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States.
1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
1992 - The European Union is formed.
1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

February 07, 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2007



Today's Highlight In History:

On Feb. 7, 1812, author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.



On this date:

In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings.

In 1906, 100 years ago, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, was born in Beijing.

In 1936, President Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president.

In 1944, during World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy.

In 1964, The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In 1974, the island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.

In 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.

In 1986, the Philippines held a presidential election marred by charges of fraud against the incumbent, Ferdinand E. Marcos.

In 1986, Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of his family's rule.

In 1999, Jordan's King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah.

On this day...

1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1947 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
1964 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
1964 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed
1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

February 08, 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

February 08, 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Today is Thursday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2007


Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.



On this date:

In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began as Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur.

In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

In 1915, D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking as well as controversial silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premiered in Los Angeles.

In 1922, President Harding had a radio installed in the White House.

In 1924, the first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.

In 1968, three college students were killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.

In 1974, the three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after spending 84 days in space.

In 1989, 144 people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores.

In 1992, the 16th Olympic Winter Games opened in Albertville, France.

This is probably trivial, but 18 years ago (back in 1989), I experienced snow in the Los Angeles area for the first time ever.

1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks

1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

1926 Sean O'Casey's "The Plough & the Stars" opens at Abbey Theatre Dublin

1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV  

1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)

1972 Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame

This is probably trivial, but 18 years ago (back in 1989), I experienced snow in the Los Angeles area for the first time ever.


Did you have to shovel?  What is it like not knowing what snow is then seeing it?

Today is Friday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2007





1667 - Peace of Andrusovo ends the Thirteen Years' War between Russia and Poland, giving Russia the eastern Ukraine, including Kiev.

1718 - French colonists arrive in Louisiana.

1788 - Austria's Joseph II declares war on Turkey.

1801 - Peace of Luneville between Austria and France marks virtual destruction of Holy Roman Empire.

1825 - U.S. House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

1849 - Rome is proclaimed republic under Giuseppe Mazzini.

1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.

1891 - Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate.

1909 - Germany recognizes France's special interests in Morocco.

1934 - Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey sign the Balkan Pact.

1941 - German troops under Gen. Erwin Rommel cross from Italy to North Africa in World War II.

1943 - The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ends with an American victory over Japanese forces.

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within British Commonwealth.

1964 - The Beatles make their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1971 - Earthquake near Los Angeles kills at least 64 people.

1989 - One woman is shot and killed and six people are injured in violence during Jamaican election.

1990 - Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. Two of president Daniel Arap Moi's closest confidants are later named as suspects but never convicted.

1991 - Approximately 90 percent of those casting ballots in Lithuania's referendum on independence vote in favor of secession from the Soviet Union.

1992 - Army-backed ruling council of Algeria declares state of emergency to quell spreading violence.

1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister, reach agreement on security issues that have stalled the Israeli PLO peace accord.

1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin says that Russian troops have pacified Chechnya. In reality, fighting continues and the Russians are later forced to withdraw from the separatist region.

1996 - A bomb explodes in a London business district, killing two, injuring 37 and causing an estimated $125 million in damage. The IRA claims responsibility.

1997 - Heavy rains pound much of Bolivia, destroying homes and crops of tens of thousands of farmers, drowning livestock and causing rivers to flood key roads.

1998 - The United States announces it will send 2,500 to 3,000 Marines to Kuwait, bolstering forces in the latest standoff with Iraq over weapons inspections.

2000 - A Massachusetts court rules that a woman can't have frozen embryos she made with her former husband at a fertility clinic. The custody battle was a first in the state

On this day...


1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA

1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg

1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)

1949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
 
1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa

1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings

Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2007



Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 10, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada ratified it.



On this date:

In 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War.

In 1840, Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

In 1841, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

In 1942, the former French liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire while being refitted for the        U.S. Navy.

In 1949, Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.

In 1968, Peggy Fleming of the United States won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.

In 1981, eight people were killed, 198 injured, when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.

In 1989, Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black person to head a major U.S. political party.

In 2005, playwright Arthur Miller died in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of his "Death of a Salesman."

February 10, 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk-o-Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

February 10, 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk-o-Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.


Elizabeth did it!!!  Indirectly of course.

Elizabeth did it!!!  Indirectly of course.
I cannot produce evidence myself for I must had been sick that day when we had that subject in history.

Elizabeth did it!!!  Indirectly of course.


I always thought it was the nobles who were jealous of his position.  They wanted her to marry one of them so they could have control and Darnley was something of an outsider.

I always thought it was the nobles who were jealous of his position.  They wanted her to marry one of them so they could have control and Darnley was something of an outsider.
More about it can be read here.

Perhaps I should read it too?

More about it can be read here.

Perhaps I should read it too?


This is wicked cool!

More about it can be read here.

Perhaps I should read it too?


Wow, so no one really knows.

February 11, 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2007



Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)



On this date:

In 1542, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

In 1795, the University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks.

In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, was founded in New York.

In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.

In 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.

In 1945, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.

In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert.

In 1980, opening ceremonies were held in Lake Placid, N.Y., for the 13th        Winter Olympics.

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.

In 1988, the 15th winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

In 1988, the 15th winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.



I remember that... I even watched 'em on TV just about every day. I was in 2nd grade at the time...and sorta "into" them. :)

On this day...


1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded

1861 Abraham Lincoln declared President

1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

1973 US dollar devalues 10%

1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR

1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame

February 14, 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

You can take a tour over to where that happened. 

You can take a tour over to where that happened. 
That is right your are based in Chicago, does the location still exist, ot has it been built over?

That is right your are based in Chicago, does the location still exist, ot has it been built over?



It still exists.  It's part of a gangland tour that takes you around to where the gangsters used to hang out, where the speakeasies they frequented were, where "The Untouchables" took place....it's all there.  They profiled it on an episode of Globe Trekker when they went to Chicago.

Today is Wednesday, February 14th the 45th day of 2007


In 269, St Valentine, a Roman priest, was martyred during the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Claudius II. St. Valentine's Day is named for him.

In 1899, the U.S. Congress approved the use of voting machines for federal elections.

In 1912, Arizona was named the 48th state of the union.

In 1918, the film "Tarzan of the Apes" was released. It was the first of many "Tarzan" films.

In 1919, the United Parcel Service was incorporated in Oakland, California.

In 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago.

In 1924, Thomas Watson founded the IBM Corporation.

In 1927, Alfred Hitchcock's first suspense film "The Lodger" opened in London.

In 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago, Illinois. Noted gangster Al Capone and his gang killed seven members of a rival gang in a warehouse.

In 1951, Sugar ray Robinson defeated Jake LaMotta to win the world middleweight boxing title. It was the first time a welterweight champion defeated a middleweight champion.

In 1962, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.

In 1972, the musical "Grease" opened at the Eden Theatre in New York City.

In 1980, Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News." Dan Rather was introduced as his replacement.

In 1984, six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient. She lived until November 1990.

In 1987, Bon Jovi topped the pop singles chart with "Livin' On A Prayer."

In 1987, 57-thousand-745 people turned out to see the Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers at the Pontiac Silverdome. It is the largest crowd in NBA history.

In 1988, Broadway composer Frederick Loewe died at the age of 86. He wrote scores for several popular musicals including "My fair Lady" and "Camelot."

In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni condemned "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie, calling his book blasphemous.

In 1989, boxer Mike Tyson and actress Robin Givens divorced after a year of marriage.

In 1991, "The Silence of the Lambs" opened in theaters across the U.S.. It would go on to claim Academy Awards for best picture, best director, best actor, and best actress.

In 1991, Hollywood actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were married.

In 1999, Nixon administration aide John D. Erlichman who was disgraced and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate coverup died.

It still exists.  It's part of a gangland tour that takes you around to where the gangsters used to hang out, where the speakeasies they frequented were, where "The Untouchables" took place....it's all there.  They profiled it on an episode of Globe Trekker when they went to Chicago.


I have been to the Biograph(where they got Dillinger).  It was real cool.

...Tia and Davey get to 666 together, spelling doom for Smurfland.

I have been to the Biograph(where they got Dillinger).  It was real cool.



So have I.  My dad's a John Dillinger buff, so naturally he dragged us over there to point it out.  ;D

...Tia and Davey get to 666 together, spelling doom for Smurfland.
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So have I.  My dad's a John Dillinger buff, so naturally he dragged us over there to point it out.  ;D


Did you guys make it down to Crown Point to see the jail?

Did you guys make it down to Crown Point to see the jail?



No, we never did that.  I should remind him next time we're in town to do that. 

No, we never did that.  I should remind him next time we're in town to do that. 


That's a nice little town. The BMV in Crown Point was nice enough to pass me so I could get my driver's license. ;D

So have I.  My dad's a John Dillinger buff, so naturally he dragged us over there to point it out.  ;D


Melvin Purvis' son(Alston) is a teacher out at Boston University and every once in a while the have a big to do about Melvin.  He wrote a book, The Vendetta, about J Edgar and his response to Purvis' being seen as a hero.  Personally I think they were both a bit to weird(to put it mildly)  to have attained the positions they were in.

...Tia and Davey get to 666 together, spelling doom for Smurfland.



When did that happen?  ;D

February 15, 1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.

On this day...

      ...in 1851, a group of outraged black men burst into a courtroom in Boston and rescued Shadrach Minkins, the first escaped slave seized in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Under the new law, northern authorities were required to help owners recapture slaves who had escaped to the North. When Shadrach Minkins's master found out that he was in Boston, he had U.S. marshals arrest him. They took him to the federal courthouse in Boston, where an angry crowd gathered. They stormed the courtroom and freed Minkins. He was taken to a hiding place on Beacon Hill. That night, he began his journey on the Underground Railroad. Six days later, he arrived safely in Canada.

On this day...


1971 England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win

February 20, 1913 - King O'Malley drove in the first survey peg to mark the commencement of work on the construction of Canberra, Australia.

Today is Monday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2007

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Today’s Highlight in History:


Forty years ago, on Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black Muslims.




On this date:


In 1878, the first telephone directory was issued, by the District Telephone Company of New Haven, Conn.

In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.

In 1916, the World War I Battle of Verdun began in France.

In 1925, The New Yorker magazine made its debut.

In 1947, Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds.

In 1972, President Nixon began his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrived in Shanghai.

In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people.

In 1975, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 ½ to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.

In 1986, Larry Wu-tai Chin, the first American found guilty of spying for China, killed himself in his Virginia jail cell.

In 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, La., that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. (Reports linked Swaggart to an admitted prostitute, Debra Murphree.)

February 21, 1972 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

275 years ago, George Washington---the very first President of the United States---was born in what is now Virginia.

Today is Thursday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2007



Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised the American flag.



On this date:

In 1822, Boston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city.

In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio.

In 1847, U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican Gen. Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.

In 1848, the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died of a stroke at age 80.

In 1861, President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, an assassination plot having been foiled in Baltimore.

In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.

In 1905, the first Rotary Club service organization was founded in Chicago by Paul Harris.

In 1965, Stan Laurel -- the "skinny" half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team -- died in Santa Monica, Calif.

In 1981, an attempted coup began in Spain as 200 members of the Civil Guard invaded the Parliament, taking lawmakers hostage. (However, the attempt collapsed 18 hours later.)

In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly." (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and disease.)

On this day...

1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun

1917 February revolution begins in Russia

1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1971 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina

1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

February 24, 1946 - Colonel Juan Perón was elected to his first term as President of Argentina.

February 26, 2007



Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.



On this date:

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.

In 1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed.

In 1919, Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

In 1929, President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created.

In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.

In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

In 1979, a total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

In 1987, the Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

In 2003, in a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court ruled that federal racketeering and extortion laws had been wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.

February 27, 1801 - Washington, D.C. was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

February 27, 2007




Today’s Highlight in History:

On February 27th, 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.



On this date:

In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.

In 1902, American author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California.

In 1922, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.

In 1939, the Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.

In 1960, the US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, three goals to two, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. (The US team went on to win the gold medal.)

In 1972, President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon’s historic visit to China.

In 1979, Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago’s Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party’s mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)

In 1985, former ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who had served three terms as a US senator and ran as the 1960 Republican vice-presidential nominee, died in Beverly, Massachusetts, at age 82.

In 1997, divorce became legal in Ireland.

In 2005, America’s top bishop, Wilton Gregory, declared the days of sheltering sex abusers in the Roman Catholic priesthood were “history” as two reports showed how pervasive assaults on minors had been during the previous half-century. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asked the state’s top court to stop San Francisco from issuing same-sex marriage licenses until the justices could decide whether the weddings were legal. (The justices halted the weddings the following month.)

February 28, 2007





1824
Birth of Blondin, pseudonym of Jean-Francois Gravelet, French tightrope walker who made several crossings of Niagara Falls.

1825
A treaty is signed between Britain and Russia settling the border between Canada and Alaska, then a Russian possession.

1844
On the Potomac River while the US navy is demonstrating its new frigate Princeton one of its guns explodes, killing the secretary of state, navy secretary and other government officials.

1854
Opponents to slavery in the US meet at Ripon, Wisconsin and agree to form a new political party; the Republican Party is born later in the year.

1890
Birth of Vladimir Nijinski, Russian ballet dancer (died 1950).

1900
Birth of George Seferis, pseudonym of Giorgos Seferiadis, Greek poet and diplomat, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963 (died 1971).

1901
Birth of Professor Linus Pauling, US chemist and physicist; He won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

1913
Birth of Vincente Minnelli, US film director; He won several Oscars for his musicals in the 1950s and his marriage to Judy Garland produced a daughter, Liza Minelli.

1916
Death of Henry James, American novelist.

1922
Britain formally declares Egypt’s independence, although it still retains control of the Suez Canal and the country’s defence.

1929
French Governor of Indochina Pasquier decides to establish the Commission Centrale de Colonisation (Central Commision for Colonisation).

1933
A day after the Reichstag burned down, Adolf Hitler persuades President Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending guarantees of personal liberty, freedom of speech and the press, as well as the right of assembly.

1942
Japanese forces land in Java, Indonesia, in World War II.

1948
The last British troops leave India.

1955
Completion of the 156km railway linking Ha Noi and Huu Nghi Quan (Friendship Gate) on the Sino-Vietnamese border.

1959
New bank notes are issued by the State Bank of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam to replace notes issued both by the bank during the war against the French (1946 – 54) and by the former Indochina Bank.

1967
Death of Henry Luce, American publisher; He was a co-founder of Time magazine and also founded Life and Fortune.

1976
Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand sign a treaty of friendship and co-operation.

1978
The Ministry of Education announces that Viet Nam has basically eradicated illiteracy.

1986
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated by a gunman in central Stockholm.

1991
After 42 days of the Gulf War, US-led forces cease fire at 8am. Kuwait time and Iraq tells its army to stop fighting.

1996
Daiwa Bank Ltd of Japan agrees to plead guilty to a criminal cover-up of US$1.1 billion in bond-trading losses and pay $340 million in fines, settling one of history’s biggest banking frauds.

1997
An earthquake in Iran destroys over 20 villages and kills almost 1,000 people.

2000
Japan loses its rights to produce oil in Saudi Arabia.

2001
A high-speed passenger train collides with an oncoming freight train in northern England at daybreak, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 70.

2002
Israeli troops storm into West Bank refugee camps for the first time in the current Mideast conflict, to search for Palestinian militants. Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier are killed in the fierce fighting.

2003
A US District Court finds reputed Ku Klux Klan member Ernest Avants guilty of aiding and abetting the 1966 murder of Ben Chester White, a 67-year-old black farm worker in Jackson, Mississippi. — AP/REUTERS/VNS

February 28, 1900 - Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith was lifted.

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2007. There are 300 days left in the year.


Highlight for today:

One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and could not sue for his freedom in federal court.



On this date:

In 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.

In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.

In 1853, Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.

In 1933, a nationwide bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect.

In 1935, retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.

In 1944, U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.

In 1957, the former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.

In 1967, the daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West.

In 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."

In 1987, 193 people died when the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2007




Today's Highlight in History:


On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.



On this date:


In 1849, horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.

In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. ADVERTISEMENT

In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.

In 1911, the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1975, the Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.

Today is Thursday, March 8, the 67th day of 2007. There are 298 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On March 8, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and inflicted heavy damage on the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va.



On this date:

In 1702, England's Queen Anne ascended the throne upon the death of King William III.

In 1782, the Gnadenhutten massacre took place as some 90 Indians were slain by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.

In 1841, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the "Great Dissenter," was born in Boston.

In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.

In 1874, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y.

In 1917, Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd.

In 1917, the U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.

In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.

In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam, about 3,500 Marines sent to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang.

In 1999, New York Yankees baseball star Joe DiMaggio died in Hollywood, Fla., at age 84.

March 9th


1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
1862 - American Civil War: In the first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia results in a draw.
1933 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
1987 - Rock band U2 release the album The Joshua Tree.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1993 - Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
2000 - The Tampa Bay Lightning National Hockey League club names Vincent Lecavalier the youngest captain of any sports team (19 years 43 days old), passing Detroit Red Wing Steve Yzerman's old record (21 years 149 days).
2004 - John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death for his part in the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002. Lee Boyd Malvo is sentenced to life in prison.

1862 - American Civil War: In the first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia results in a draw.


They needed bigger guns :D

March 09, 1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, was murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Today is Friday, March 9, the 68th day of 2007. There are 297 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On March 9, 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on an episode of "See It Now."



On this date:

In 1661, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, died, leaving King Louis XIV in full control.

In 1796, the future emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, married Josephine de Beauharnais. The couple divorced in 1809.

In 1860, the first Japanese ambassador to the United States (Niimi Buzennokami) and his staff arrived in San Francisco.

In 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va.

In 1916, Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, N.M., killing more than a dozen people.

In 1933, Congress, called into special session by President Roosevelt, began its "hundred days" of enacting New Deal legislation.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers launched incendiary bomb attacks against Japan.

In 1975, work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.

In 1977, about a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.

In 1981, Dan Rather made his debut as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."

1841 Amistad

1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana

1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland

On This Day In History:

1959 First Barbie Doll produced.

1964 First Ford Mustang produced

1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)

1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies

1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1906 London Underground opens Bakerloo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr

March 10, 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.

Today is Tuesday, March 13th, the 72nd day of 2007. There are 293 days left in the year.





Today’s Highlight in History:


One hundred years ago, on March 13th, 1906, American suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony died in Rochester, New York, at age 86.




On this date:


In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate.

In 1884, Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States.

In 1901, the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis.

In 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

In 1933, banks began to re-open after a “holiday” declared by President Roosevelt.

In 1964, 38 residents of a Queens, New York neighborhood failed to respond to the cries of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.

In 1969, the Apollo Nine astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.

In 1980, Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford the Second announced he was stepping down.

In 1980, a jury in Winamac, Indiana, found Ford Motor Company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto.

March 14, 1757 - Admiral John Byng of the British Royal Navy was executed by firing squad for breaching the Articles of War at the start of the Seven Years' War.

Today is Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2007. There are 292 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:


On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.




On this date:



In 1900, Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.

In 1923, President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.

In 1939, the republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia.

In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

In 1965, Israel's cabinet formally approved establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany.

In 1967, the body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1980, a Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.

In 1991, a British court reversed the convictions of the Birmingham 6, who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

March 15:

1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
1909 - Selfridges department store opens in London.

Today is Sunday, March 18, the 77th day of 2007. There are 288 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.



On this date:

In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.

In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.

In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.)

In 1931, Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.

In 1937, more than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.

In 1959, President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statheood bill.

In 1962, France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.

In 1974, most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.

In 1995, Spain's Princess Elena married a banker, Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada, in Seville; it was Spain's first royal wedding in 89 years.

1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo

1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time

1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC

1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out

1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia

1985 Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle

1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)

1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen

1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
2003 -- Iraq War: Shortly after 10:00 pm EST, George W. Bush addresses the nation and announces the commencement of air attacks against targets in Iraq.


God, has it really been 4 years?  Ugh.

March 19, 1982 - Argentine forces led by Alfredo Astiz occupied South Georgia, precipitating the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.

Today is Mondayy, March 19, the 78th day of 2007. There are 287 days left in the year. This is the date the swallows traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California.



Today's Highlight in History:

On March 19, 1953, the Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time; "The Greatest Show on Earth" was named best picture of 1952.



On this date:

In 1859, the opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.

In 1917, the Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads.

In 1918, Congress approved daylight-saving time.

In 1931, Nevada legalized gambling.

In 1945, during World War II, 724 people were killed when a Japanese dive bomber attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan; the ship, however, was saved.

In 1945, Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.

In 1951, Herman Wouk's World War II novel "The Caine Mutiny" was first published.

In 1976, Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.

In 1979, the U.S. House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business.

In 2003, President Bush ordered the start of war against Iraq. (Because of the time difference, it was early March 20 in Iraq.)

March 19, 1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.

1907 US invades Honduras

1935 Persia officially renamed Iran

1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in New York NY

1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL

1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene

1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years

1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon

March 22, 1995 - Russian cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov of the Soyuz programme returned from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.

Today is Friday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2007. There are 283 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry made his famous call for American independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"



On this date:

In 1792, Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the "Surprise" symphony) was performed publicly for the first time, in London.

In 1806, 200 years ago, explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.

In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.

In 1942, during World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers.

In 1956, 50 years ago, Pakistan became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.

In 1965, America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard.

In 1983, President Reagan first proposed developing technology to intercept enemy missiles -- a proposal that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, as well as "Star Wars."

In 1983, Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

In 2003, a U.S. Army maintenance convoy was ambushed in Iraq; 11 soldiers were killed, seven were captured, including Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch, who was rescued on April 1.

1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England

1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

1898 1st automobile sold

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency

1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service

1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years

1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene

1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military

1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law

  1939 : Basil Rathbone debuts as Sherlock Holmes
1945 : Billboard's first Top Album chart published
1958 : Elvis joins the army

March 24, 1944 - World War II: Captured Allied soldiers began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.

Today is Saturday, March 24th, the 83rd day of 2007. There are 282 days left in the year.



Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 24th, 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.



On this date:

In 1883, long-distance telephone service was inaugurated between Chicago and New York.

In 1934, President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers.

In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazzara as Brick and Burl Ives as Big Daddy.

In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed
by her country’s military.

In 1980, one of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador.

In 1989, the nation’s worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking eleven million gallons of crude.

In 1995, for the first time in 20 years, no British soldiers were patrolling the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.

In 1999, 39 people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.

March 24, 1944 - World War II: Captured Allied soldiers began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.
Which is (March 24) also Steve McQueen's birthday

Which is (March 24) also Steve McQueen's birthday


Now that is odd!!

March 25, 1957 - West Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, France and Belgium signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.

March 27, 1964 - a deadly earthquake shook the state of Alaska to pieces. :o

March 28, 1862 - American Civil War: An invasion of New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.

March 28, 1862 - American Civil War: An invasion of New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
that was 94 years before I was born

Modern Day History:

March 28, 1979 - A nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island (pictured) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suffered a loss of coolant and a partial meltdown.

Modern Day History:

March 28, 1979 - A nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island (pictured) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suffered a loss of coolant and a partial meltdown.
The China Syndrome - Jane Fonda , Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas

The China Syndrome - Jane Fonda , Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas



What a fantastic movie.  Love it, love it, love it.

March 28, 845 - Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom.

1799 New York State abolished slavery (actually it was gradual emancipation)

Thereby freeing Cesar Egberts and his wife Rebecca Dunbar of New Baltimore who are my Greatgreatgreatgreat grandparents.    :)

that was 94 years before I was born

and 118 years before I was born! :D

1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day

1865 Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed

1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage

1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM

1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon

1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon

1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)

1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)

March 31, 1889 - The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris.

1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine

1865 Battle of 5 Forks VA, signalling end of Lee's army 

1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes 1st female in professional baseball

1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany

1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY

1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 

1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race

April 01, 1976 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

April 01, 1976 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.


April?

April?



Yes, that's right.  It's Chucky's A.pril Fools Day joke for the site.

April 02, 1982 - Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War.

1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to do so.
1917 - World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1917 - The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.
1975 - CN Tower completed in Toronto Ontario Canada: reaches 553.33 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
1992 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84. His funeral is broadcast to every corner of the globe through the modern media. Millions of Catholic pilgrims journey to Rome, Italy to pay final respects.

April 02, 1792 - By the Coinage Act, the United States Mint was founded and the U.S. currency was decimalized.

1863 Bread revolt in Richmond VA

1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA

1865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg

1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland's Station)

1884 London prison for debtors closed

1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England

1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA

1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional

1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald

1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

April 3, 1974 The tornado superoutbreak of April 3-4, 1974 resulted in 148 tornadoes in 13 states. Across the United States, 315 people were killed, more than 6,000 injured, and 27,000 families suffered property losses. The Xenia Tornado caused the most deaths of any tornado in the outbreak. In Ohio, 12 tornadoes touched down, killing 36 people.  33 died in Xenia alone, 1150 injured. Half the town was either damaged or destroyed.  My grandparents and all of my moms 7 brothers and sisters lived there. My mom was there visiting and we couldn't reach her. It was terrifying. We had to walk for miles to get there to find her because we couldn't get there by car. It was then and still is the worst thing I've ever seen.  Here's a link if you want more info.
http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/content/1974_tornado.htm

April 04, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse

1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann

1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death

1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

1712 Slave revolt in New York

1862 Battle of Shiloh

1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson

1912 Electric starter 1st appeared in cars

1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar

April 13, 1860 - The Pony Express, the first mail service across the North American continent from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast, was successfully completed for the first time.

Today is Sunday, April 15, the 105th day of 2007. There are 260 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. Some 1,500 people died.


On this date:

In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.

In 1861, three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.

In 1865, President Lincoln died, several hours after being shot at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.

In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball's first black major league player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.)

In 1980, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at the age of 74.

In 1986, the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.

In 1989, 96 people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

In 1990, actress Greta Garbo died in New York at age 84.

In 1998, Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 73, evading prosecution for the deaths of two million Cambodians.

April 16, 1746 - The Battle of Culloden, the final battle of the Jacobite Rising, was fought in Culloden, Scotland.

1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia

1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

Today marks the 12th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings. :-[ :\'(

April 19, 1775 - The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published

1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11

1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded

April 20, 1884 - Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Humanum Genus, denouncing Freemasonry and the doctrine of a separation of church and state.

1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit

Today is Saturday, April 21, the 111th day of 2007. There are 254 days left in the year.


Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 21, 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.


On this date:

In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.

In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.

In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut.

In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the “Red Baron,” was killed in action during World War One.

In 1940, the quiz show that asked the “64-dollar question,” “Take It or Leave It,” premiered on CBS Radio. (64 dollars is cq)

In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.

In 1975, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after ten years in office.

In 1977, the musical play “Annie” opened on Broadway.

In 1986, a vault in Chicago’s Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera; aside from a few bottles and a sign, the vault was empty.

April 21, 1966 - Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visited Jamaica and was greeted by more than a hundred thousand Rastafarians.

On April 21st of 2004, this new inthe00s board was launched (under the SMF software). :D Of course, everyone who was a member prior to that date (including me, Cat, Karen, Paul, etc..... even Chucky) had to create new accounts.

And now, three years later, still going strong!

On April 21st of 2004, this new inthe00s board was launched (under the SMF software). :D Of course, everyone who was a member prior to that date (including me, Cat, Karen, Paul, etc..... even Chucky) had to create new accounts.

And now, three years later, still going strong!
Happy Birthday!!!

April 22, 1946 - The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.

1526 1st slave revolt occurs in South Carolina

1889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; as many as nine out of ten of these settlers had jumped the gun, earning themselves the name "Sooners"

1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins

1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated

1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began

1970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources

1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins

1915 - Chlorine gas was released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, the first large-scale use of poison gas in World War I.

Happy Birthday!!!

And next month will be three years since you've been a member!

And next month will be three years since you've been a member!
My god, so it will be.

On this day...

1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf

1661 English king Charles II crowned in London

1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends

1977 Military workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa

1984 AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

1987 28 construction workers killed in an apartment building collapse in Bridgeport CT

1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions

I don't know, I didn't post it.  Something wicked this way comes >:(

I double checked, I may have inadvertently copied that from the data base where I get my stuff from.  :-[

April 24, 1916 - Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, broke out in Ireland, a precursor to the eventual formation of the Republic of Ireland.

1704 "Boston News-Letter", 1st successful newspaper in US, is established 

1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)

1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead 

1989 Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China

1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1

April 25, 1792 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed La Marseillaise, now the national anthem of France.

1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices

1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal

1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden

April 26, 1865 - Boston Corbett shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain

1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die

On this date ten years ago, a second-cousin of mine got married (1997); six years and a day later, they gave birth to their first child (2003).

Today is Friday, April 27, the 117th day of 2007. There are 248 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:


On April 27, 1805, during the First Barbary War, an American-led force of Marines and mercenaries captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.


On this date:


In 1509, Pope Julius II excommunicated the republic of Venice. (The pope lifted the ban in February 1510.)


In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.


In 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I.


In 1822, the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.


In 1865, the steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 people, mostly Union prisoners of war.


In 1932, American poet Hart Crane, 32, drowned after jumping from a steamer into the Gulf of Mexico while en route to New York.


In 1947, it was "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium as baseball fans, not just in New York, but across the country as well, honored the ailing star.


In 1967, Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.


In 1973, during the Watergate scandal, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned.


In 1978, convicted Watergate defendant John D. Ehrlichman was released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months.

April 27, 1667 - John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

April 30:

1789 - George Washington was sworn in as the very first U.S. President.

1992 - Riots erupted in Los Angeles as a result of the Rodney King verdict.

Today is Monday, April 30, the 120th day of 2007. There are 245 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:

On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.



On this date:

In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.

In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.

In 1900, engineer John Luther ``Casey'' Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.

In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis.

In 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened.

In 1947, President Truman signed a measure officially changing the name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.

In 1970, President Nixon announced the U.S. was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.

In 1973, President Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.

In 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

May 1, 1997: The General Election that day saw a change in the rule of the British Government