November 24th 1859 – On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.

1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists

1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog

1963  Lee Harvey Oswald JFK's assassin shot dead by Jack Ruby

1963   Lee Harvey Oswald JFK's assassin shot dead by Jack Ruby
This event complicated matters even more.

This event complicated matters even more.


I saw it live, was watching with my mum.

I saw it live, was watching with my mum.
When I saw a recent programme on the death of JFK, the footage of LHO being shot by JR, it occured to me with all the cameras and press there, the shooting was stage. But this thread is not here for the discussion of this.

When I saw a recent programme on the death of JFK, the footage of LHO being shot by JR, it occured to me with all the cameras and press there, the shooting was stage. But this thread is not here for the discussion of this.


True and true again

This event complicated matters even more.


And it made the newspapers too.

November 25th 1120 – The vessel White Ship sank in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England.

1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa

1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland died. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.

November 26th 1778 – The expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

....mmmm.... Now how did that happen?

Sean Bell was shot outside a nightclub in Queens a year ago.

November 26th 1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

November 27th 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady)

1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady)


Can cars be driven (legally) through Central Park today?

Can cars be driven (legally) through Central Park today?


There is one road that bisects the park.

There is one road that bisects the park.
Exactly the same for Hyde Park in London.

If only we could get a speakers corner

If only we could get a speakers corner
Can free speak be out spoken in public in the USA, like we can over here?

BTW, November 27th 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

Can free speak be out spoken in public in the USA, like we can over here?



In theory, but people can be "detained" for "disturbing the peace".

In theory, but people can be "detained" for "disturbing the peace".
...and disturbing the peace can mean for making a lot of noise like shouting?

November 27th 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

...and disturbing the peace can mean for making a lot of noise like shouting?



It can mean just about anything they want it to mean  :(

It can mean just about anything they want it to mean   :(
I understand.

In theory, but people can be "detained" for "disturbing the peace".


What if they're allowed to speak? ???

What if they're allowed to speak? ???
I imagine you would see flashing blue lights and hear sirens.

I imagine you would see flashing blue lights and hear sirens.


Yes,they'd be arrested.

November 27th 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

November 28th 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.

1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean

November 28th 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.

November 28th 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.


Would that be any relation to Brooke?  ???

Would that be any relation to Brooke?  ???
It was the Astor family that founded the Astoria Hotel, but as for a Brooke connection, I have to check it out.

It was the Astor family that founded the Astoria Hotel, but as for a Brooke connection, I have to check it out.


Yeah,they could be two different people.

Would that be any relation to Brooke?  ???



Nancy was an American who married Lord Astor

Nancy was an American who married Lord Astor



So,no relation I'm assuming?  ???

November 28th 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.

Would that be any relation to Brooke?  ???
Brooke Astor born with the name Roberta Brooke Russell, married Victor Astor, and he was a member of the prominent Astor family.

So,no relation I'm assuming?  ???
Nancy definitely related.

Brooke Astor born with the name Roberta Brooke Russell, married Victor Astor, and he was a member of the prominent Astor family.



Oh so there ISN'T any relation whatsoever?

Oh so there ISN'T any relation whatsoever?


The both married into the Astor family.  Their husbands would be related

November 28th 1814 - The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

November 29th 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph, his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.

1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
...and it then snowed.

...and it then snowed.


and snowed, and snowed......

and snowed, and snowed......
...the troops were cold.

...the troops were cold.


as cold as Napoleons heart

as cold as Napoleons heart
...and 70 years later on Tchaikovsky wrote some music for it in the form of an overture.

...and 70 years later on Tchaikovsky wrote some music for it in the form of an overture.


That is played on the 4th of July in Boston every year, cannons and all  :)

That is played on the 4th of July in Boston every year, cannons and all  :)
That must be a sight to be seen and heard.

November 30th 1936 – The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire.

1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence

1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence

What happened next?

What happened next?



It has been 300 years of trying to emulate that which we rejected 

1641  Massachusetts becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery

1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus

December 1st 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.

December 2nd 1942 – The Manhattan Project: Scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1.

December 3rd 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.

December 3rd 1937 - The Dandy, the UK's longest-running comic, is first published.

1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)

1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

December 3rd 1854 – At least 22 people were killed and 35 others were injured when rebelling miners at the Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

December 4th:


1791 – The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.

1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.



Believe it or not Pan Am still lives, albeit in an extremely abbreviated form  www.flypanam.com/

Believe it or not Pan Am still lives, albeit in an extremely abbreviated form  www.flypanam.com/
A name change?

1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (No 12333)

A name change?


Called Pan Am - Clipper Connection, and same logo serving only 3 cities it looks like

1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County GA

December 4th 1959 - A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.

December 4th 1959 - A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.



What was this monkey's name?

What was this monkey's name?
The monkey's name was Sam, the name was an acronym for the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas.

December 5th 1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

December 5th 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

1941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved

December 5th 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.

December 6th 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published.

was it yesterday or today that the Byrds hit song Turn, Turn, Turn hit #1

was it yesterday or today that the Byrds hit song Turn, Turn, Turn hit #1
I cannot answer that for it never reached number one in the UK.

1865 13th Amendment is ratified by majority, abolishing slavery(not fully ratified until 1995 when Mississippi finally relented)

 

1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice-President, succeeds Spiro T Agnew

December 6th 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.

1877  1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)

December 6th 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

was it yesterday or today that the Byrds hit song Turn, Turn, Turn hit #1


It must've been yesterday.

It must've been yesterday.
I cannot find a good website for the history of the Billboard Charts.

December 7th 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.

1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone

1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

1968  M Dodd returns a library book his Great grandfather took out in 1923

....and Diogenes went home to sleep

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg/250px-Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg

1968  M Dodd returns a library book his Great grandfather took out in 1923

....and Diogenes went home to sleep

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg/250px-Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg
Is it know how much the fine was?

Is it know how much the fine was?


In the thousands, but,luckily for him, it was waived.

In the thousands, but,luckily for him, it was waived.
So he renewed the book?

December 8th 1980 – Mark David Chapman fatally shot former Beatle John Lennon outside the Dakota apartments in New York City.

:\'(

December 9th 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature.

December 10th 1868 – The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London, resembling railway signals with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use.

December 11th 1931 – The British Parliament enacted the Statute of Westminster, giving complete legislative independence to the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

December 12th 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.

December 13th 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1833 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonie

December 13th 1642 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European explorer to reach New Zealand.

December 13, 2000...Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore gave his concession speech, after conceding the previous day, in an attempt to recount Florida votes...which was halted by the Supreme Court. 8-P

December 14th 1896 – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro, began operations in Glasgow, Scotland.

1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing

December 14th 1911 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.

December 15th 1791 – The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, were ratified.

1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness

December 15th 1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that became known as basketball.

Canadian, James Naismith(and that a blip)

Canadian, James Naismith(and that a blip)
I only know the sport...

I only know the sport...


It's a very American sport, but it was "invented" by a Canadian.  I always laugh a bit about that.  It is like "O Danny Boy" being the quintessential song at all things Irish, but that was written by an Englishman

It's a very American sport, but it was "invented" by a Canadian.  I always laugh a bit about that.  It is like "O Danny Boy" being the quintessential song at all things Irish, but that was written by an Englishman
History of the song Danny Boy or Londonderry Air.

December 16th 1689 – The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.

1773 Boston Tea Party

Today (December 16) this the presumed date for the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in 1770. His was baptised on 17th December 1770, and in Germany in those times it was traditional for the baby to be baptised on the day after the birth.

1773 Boston Tea Party

I am drinking tea right now.

Be careful of Puritans dressed as Indians(American),  you could find yourself in the Thames  ;D

Be careful of Puritans dressed as Indians(American),  you could find yourself in the Thames   ;D
I know the basics of what happen that day, but I will read up on it.

December 17th 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)

December 17th 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

December 17th 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.



  Why..?

   Why..?
Let me learn my American history.

   Why..?
Does this answer the question?

Does this answer the question?


  Okay, he was anti-semitic...

  What do you think about that..?

   Okay, he was anti-semitic...

   What do you think about that..?
I am still learning...

I am still learning...


  Seems he had a history of such edicts...

  What a tool...

The 30th Anniversary of Saturday Night Fever.

The 30th Anniversary of Saturday Night Fever.


  Get outta here..!

   Get outta here..!



Actually Dave I think it was yesterday.

Actually Dave I think it was yesterday.


  You're right, it was yesterday...

  The premiere was on the 14th in NYC...

Release dates of Saturday Night Fever on imdb.com

USA 14 December 1977 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 16 December 1977 
UK 1 January 1978 (London) (premiere)

Release dates of Saturday Night Fever on imdb.com

USA 14 December 1977 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 16 December 1977 
UK 1 January 1978 (London) (premiere)



  I was not allowed to see it back then.  Too young... :\'(

  Wanted to, though...

  Okay, he was anti-semitic...

  What do you think about that..?


Warts and all, warts and all..... :(

Warts and all, warts and all..... :(


  Now I remember you posting about USG in P&R...

  Now I remember you posting about USG in P&R...


This is a good topic for another thread

This is a good topic for another thread


  Yes...

   I was not allowed to see it back then.  Too young... :\'(

   Wanted to, though...
On it's first release it was given an adult certificate, which to me when I saw it then, I found the swearing unneccessary for the film.

BTW, I fell asleep when I saw it!

BTW, I fell asleep when I saw it!




:o  Me, too! I rented the video and did a lot of fast forward.  Don't get the hubbub

On it's first release it was given an adult certificate, which to me when I saw it then, I found the swearing unneccessary for the film.

BTW, I fell asleep when I saw it!


  Ha..!

  SNF had a certain mystique about it.  Anyone who had the opportunity to see it was automatically cool by association, or by osmosis...

  Same thing with Porky's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High a few years later...  

:o  Me, too! I rented the video and did a lot of fast forward.  Don't get the hubbub
Don't get me wrong, the music is great, it is just the film!

Don't get me wrong, the music is great, it is just the film!


exactly!

17th December 1969 - Project Blue Book: The USAF closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."

December 17th 1865 – Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.

1849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope

December 18th 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.

December 19th 1843 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, was first published.

1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

December 19th 1974 – The Altair 8800, widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution of the next few years, went on sale.

December 20th 1803 – As part of the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans was transferred from France to the United States.

1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50

December 20th 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, USA became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs

December 21st 1937 – The animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, premiered to a widely receptive audience.

December 21st 1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts

1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah

December 22nd 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Fifth Symphony, currently one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia

1065 Westminister Abbey opens in London

January 4th 1948 – Burma achieved independence from the British Empire, with U Nu of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League as its first Prime Minister.

1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President

January 5th 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 

January 6th 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, USA.

January 6th 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

January 7th 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by balloon.

January 7th 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.

1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government (sanctions came 3 years later)

January 8th 1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine.

1992 US President George Bush gets ill(hangover) & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour

1992 US President George Bush gets ill(hangover) & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour

Is it on YouTube?

1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia(the only country named for a family)

Is it on YouTube?


Should be!  It was played here many times, they first said he had the flu, but the truth will out  ;D

Should be!  It was played here many times, they first said he had the flu, but the truth will out   ;D
It all came out in conversation!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo


he shouldn't ate the sushi. ::)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo
Should I look?

Should I look?


It's not that weird. ;D

January 9th 1916 – World War I: The last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevailed over of a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli.

January 10th 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opened on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

January 11th 1986 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at the time the longest prestressed concrete free cantilever bridge in the world, opened.

January 11th 1986 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at the time the longest prestressed concrete free cantilever bridge in the world, opened.


Geez....I live in Brisbane and I didn't know that. That bridge is nearly obsolete and they want to build a twin beside it.

Jan 12 - Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia vs. England

1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl

1913 Bread & Roses Strike begins

1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family

Geez....I live in Brisbane and I didn't know that. That bridge is nearly obsolete and they want to build a twin beside it.I have a feeling you are based in Brisbane, thats why I included it.


Jan 12 - Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia vs. England
Don't remind us!

January 11th 1922 – Insulin was first administered to a human patient with diabetes at the Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

January 12th 1971 – The American situation comedy All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as reactionary, bigoted, blue-collar worker Archie Bunker, was first broadcast on the CBS television network. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously deemed unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy. 

January 13th 1957 - The Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris

2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a record high of 11,722.98.

January 15th 1885 – American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21

January 15th 1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

January 16th 1986 The Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization that develops and promotes Internet standards, held its first meeting, consisting of twenty-one United States-government-funded researchers.

1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

January 16th 1909 – The Nimrod Expedition led by Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton reached the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole.

Since we don't have a "5 years ago" thread in the 2000's section yet, and there's something important that happened in my life on January 16th of 2003, I figured I'd post it here: we got our dog Chloe, from a chihuahua rescue facility. In the evening, the people from Chihuahua Rescue came over with the dog, and made sure our home was safe for her; they have to do that so the dog will be safe. Chloe was a little nervous at first, given that she was in a new environment, but two weeks earlier my parents had gone out to the facility, in Burbank, to meet Chloe. Since then, she has adjusted to our home and become a loving companion. :)

That's how I plan to get our next dog.  From a ewscue site...suppose they have any shelties?

Oh yeah...we found out about Chihuahua Rescue on the internet. Btw, what is an "EWscue" site?

ewscue=rescue.  Just a typo.

ewscue=rescue.  Just a typo.

I figured it might be, since the "W" is immediately to the left of the "E". And a sheltie, I presume, is like a shelter. ;)

No a Shetland Sheep Dog...like a small collie. They're bright and empathic. ;)

1919 - Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

1919 - Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

In December of 1933, the 18th amendment would be repealed in its entirety by the 21st amendment.

January 17th 1929 – Popeye the Sailor, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appeared in his newspaper comic strip Thimble Theater.

January 17th 1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

 




1994 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage

1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)

1861 Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper

1861 Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper
http://www.egge.net/~savory/crapper_plaque.jpg

1994 6.6 earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage

1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)


I remember the '94 quake very well; it affected me and my family. We were living in a mobile home at the time, which was very mobile indeed...it shifted off its foundation and had to be repaired! We had good earthquake insurance at the time. So for the next three months, we had to live in hotels and motels while our mobile home was being repaired. The first night, however, my parents and I slept on a sofa bed at my grandparents' house (they were living in the West Valley at the time...a few miles away from where the quake was centered). I slept between them, so anytime I felt a jolt/aftershock, I'd grab on to my folks so that they wouldn't fall off! Also, school was closed for the first two weeks after the earthquake, so when it started up again for me (I was in the 8th grade at the time) on the 31st, it was a long drive from Pasadena (where most of our motels were located) to Northridge...but I adjusted well.

As for the Japan earthquake...it was rather uncanny that it happened 1 year to the day after ours! :o Of course, they were a lot worse off than we were.

1899 – The United States took possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

January 18th:


1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.
1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.

January 19th 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.

January 19, 1994: Bill Clinton, who had been President of the U.S. for just about a whole year, visited the Los Angeles area to view the damage done by the recent earthquake.

January 19, 1994: Bill Clinton, who had been President of the U.S. for just about a whole year, visited the Los Angeles area to view the damage done by the recent earthquake.
Did you see him?

January 20th 1885 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity", patented the roller coaster.

1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA

January 21st 1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the National Convention, King Louis XVI was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.

1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing

1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign

January 21st 1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.

January 22nd 1901 – After holding the title Prince of Wales for six decades, King Edward VII ascended to the British throne, replacing Queen Victoria whose death ended her reign that lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than any other British monarch.

1932 British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge

January 22nd 1992 - Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.

January 23rd 2001 – Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident: Seven people attempted to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square on the eve of Chinese New Year, an act that many people claim was staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.

1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized

1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

January 23rd 1912 – Twelve nations signed the International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty, to regulate the production and distribution of opiates.

January 24th 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.

"Dere be gold in dem hills"