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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:01 am
1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:01 am
1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:01 am
1833 – With the arrival of three British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom was able to re-assert sovereignty there.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:02 am
1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:02 am
1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:03 am
1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:03 am
1870 – The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:03 am
1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:04 am
1924 – British explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:04 am
1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:04 am
1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:04 am
1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:04 am
1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:05 am
1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:05 am
1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:05 am
1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:06 am
1953 – Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:06 am
1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:07 am
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:07 am
1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:07 am
1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:07 am
1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:08 am
1961 – The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:09 am
1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:09 am
1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:09 am
1988 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:10 am
1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:10 am
1993 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:10 am
1994 – An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:11 am
1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:12 am
1997 – The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:12 am
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:12 am
1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:12 am
2004 – Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 3:12 am
2007 – National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:55 pm
1521 - German Reformer Martin Luther, 38, was excommunicated by Pope Leo X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine. Luther soon after began translating of the Bible into the German language.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:56 pm
1785 - The famed Methodist "Christmas Conference" concluded in Baltimore, MD. Having opened on Christmas Eve, 1784, this body brought into being the Methodist Episcopal Church (in America), and elected Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke the first two American "general superintendents."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:56 pm
1930 - American Congregational missionary Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'I have done nothing but open windows Ä God has done the rest.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:56 pm
1934 - At Barmen-Gemarke, in Germany, 320 pastors of the German Confessing Church met to draw up a theological statement opposing the Nazi German Nationalist Church. Led by Karl Barth and Martin Niem”ller, the gathering led to the formula afterward known as the Barmen Declaration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:56 pm
1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870, officially changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis, TN, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:57 pm
1910 - British miners strike for 8 hour working day
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/11 at 2:58 pm
1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:23 pm
1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman Conquest of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:23 pm
1355 – Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:24 pm
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:24 pm
1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:25 pm
1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:25 pm
1554 – A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:25 pm
1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:26 pm
1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:26 pm
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:26 pm
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:26 pm
1782 – American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:27 pm
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:27 pm
1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:27 pm
1895 – Dreyfus Affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:28 pm
1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:28 pm
1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:28 pm
1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:28 pm
1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:29 pm
1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:30 pm
1913 – First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:30 pm
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:30 pm
1918 – The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi party, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:31 pm
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:31 pm
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:31 pm
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:31 pm
1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:32 pm
1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:32 pm
1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:32 pm
1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:33 pm
1969 – Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:34 pm
1971 – The first One Day International cricket match is held between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:34 pm
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:35 pm
1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:35 pm
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:35 pm
1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:36 pm
1976 – Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:36 pm
1976 – Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:37 pm
1991 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:38 pm
1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:38 pm
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:39 pm
1996 – Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:39 pm
2003 – Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/11 at 1:39 pm
2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:35 pm
1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:35 pm
1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:36 pm
1449 – Constantine XI Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor, the last one before the Fall of Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:36 pm
1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:37 pm
1579 – The Union of Atrecht is signed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:37 pm
1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:37 pm
1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:37 pm
1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:38 pm
1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:38 pm
1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:38 pm
1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:39 pm
1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:39 pm
1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:39 pm
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:40 pm
1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:40 pm
1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:40 pm
1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Maria_Montessori.jpg/74px-Maria_Montessori.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:41 pm
1910 – The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:41 pm
1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:42 pm
1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:42 pm
1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:42 pm
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:43 pm
1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:44 pm
1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:44 pm
1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:44 pm
1942 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:45 pm
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:45 pm
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organization of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:45 pm
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:45 pm
1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:45 pm
1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:46 pm
1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at London Heathrow Airport two days earlier.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:48 pm
1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:49 pm
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:49 pm
1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:50 pm
2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 12:51 pm
2010 – The Ady Gil, a ship owned by Sea Shepherd, is sunk during a skirmish with the Japanese Whaling Fleet's Shōnan Maru.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1598 – Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:11 pm
1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) first observed three of the eventual four Galilean moons through his telescope: Io, Europa, and Callisto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:11 pm
1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) first observed three of the eventual four Galilean moons through his telescope: Io, Europa, and Callisto.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg/81px-Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:12 pm
1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) first observed three of the eventual four Galilean moons through his telescope: Io, Europa, and Callisto.
Ganymede was not discovered by him until January 13.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:12 pm
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:13 pm
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
Is it still open?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:13 pm
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:13 pm
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:13 pm
1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:13 pm
1894 – W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:14 pm
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:14 pm
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:14 pm
1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:14 pm
1922 – Dáil Éireann narrowly approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence and established the Irish Free State a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:17 pm
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York City to London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:17 pm
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:18 pm
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:18 pm
1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:18 pm
1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:18 pm
1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell fatally crashed his P-51 Mustang while in pursuit of a supposed UFO near Fort Knox, Kentucky, US.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:20 pm
1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:20 pm
1952 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:20 pm
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:21 pm
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:21 pm
1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:21 pm
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:22 pm
1972 – Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:22 pm
1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:22 pm
1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for the women of the Philippines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:23 pm
1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:23 pm
1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:23 pm
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:23 pm
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:23 pm
1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:24 pm
1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:25 pm
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:25 pm
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 1:25 pm
2007 – Newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw Stanisław Wielgus resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with the Polish communist government's secret police.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:13 pm
1450 - In Scotland, the University of Glasgow was founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:13 pm
1610 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, 46, discovered four satellites of Jupiter with the aid of the newly invented telescope. His discovery revolutionized astronomy, and led Galileo to adopt the Copernican (heliocentric) model of the solar system in place of the older, less adequate, Ptolemaic (earth-centered) view.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:13 pm
1856 - In London, famed English Baptist preacher Charles H. Spurgeon, 22, married Susannah Thompson, one of the parishioners at the New Park Street Baptist Chapel, where he was pastoring.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:13 pm
1934 - Converted major league baseball player Billy Sunday, at age 72, began a two-week revival at Calvary Baptist Church in NY City. (Sunday was an evangelist from 1893 until his death in 1935.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:13 pm
1941 - In England, the four-day Anglican gathering known as the Malvern Conference opened. It was presided over by Archbishop William Temple.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:15 pm
1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 3:16 pm
1996 - "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 1622 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:49 am
871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:49 am
1297 – Monaco gains its independence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:49 am
1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:49 am
1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:49 am
1746 – Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:50 am
1790 – George Washington delivered the first ever State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:50 am
1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:53 am
1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:53 am
1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:53 am
1835 – The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:54 am
1838 – Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse conducted the first successful public demonstration of the telegraph.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:55 am
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:55 am
1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:55 am
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:56 am
1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith (pictured) received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:56 am
1889 – Statistician Herman Hollerith (pictured) received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Hollerith.jpg/69px-Hollerith.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:58 am
1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:58 am
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:59 am
1912 – The African National Congress is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 3:59 am
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:00 am
1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:00 am
1956 – Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:00 am
1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:02 am
1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:02 am
1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:02 am
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1977 – Three bombs went off in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1978 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:03 am
1979 – The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal off Bantry Bay, Ireland, killing approximately 50 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:04 am
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:05 am
1982 – The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:05 am
1989 – The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:06 am
1989 – Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:06 am
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:06 am
1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:09 am
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:09 am
2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:10 am
2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:10 am
2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:22 am
1800 - In London, the first soup kitchens were opened for the relief of the poor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:22 am
1954 - The State Convention of Baptists in Ohio was formed, representing 39 Southern Baptist churches in that state.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:23 am
1956 - In Ecuador, Plymouth Brethren missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Pete Fleming were killed by the Auca Indians, while attempting to evangelize their tribe. Elliot's widow Elisabeth later published the story of their work and martyrdom in her book "Through Gates of Splendor" (1953).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:23 am
1966 - Stephen Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland, was barred by the Polish government from attending the Vatican celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:23 am
1979 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is a person who has the possibility of innumerable new starts.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:24 am
1998 New York Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:24 am
1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:24 am
1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:25 am
1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:25 am
1996 - For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:27 am
1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:28 am
1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 3,486 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:28 am
1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City NY after 761 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:28 am
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:28 am
1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:29 am
1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:29 am
1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 4:30 am
1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City NY for 772 performances
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:36 am
1705 - George F Handel's 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:36 am
1716 - Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:36 am
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:37 am
1499 - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:37 am
1598 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:38 am
871 - Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:38 am
1745 - England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:38 am
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:38 am
1833 - Boston Academy of Music, first US music school, established
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:40 am
1878 - Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:40 am
1894 - Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:40 am
1897 - Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:42 am
1902 - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:42 am
1904 - Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:42 am
1917 - Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:43 am
1996 - Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:44 am
1993 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:47 am
1993 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
Is it that when Elvis fans posted the First Day Cover to a fictitious address so that the envelope would have printed on it "Return To Sender" on it's return?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 6:47 am
1993 - Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
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Written By: Howard on 01/08/11 at 8:17 am
1996 - Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
I remember that,25 inches of snow. :o
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/08/11 at 8:32 am
I remember that,25 inches of snow. :o
More than that fell a few weeks back?