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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:08 pm
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:08 pm
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:08 pm
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:09 pm
1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:10 pm
1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:11 pm
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:11 pm
1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:11 pm
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:12 pm
2009 – A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in 173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 1:12 pm
2009 – A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in 173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.
I believe there are bushfires near Perth in Western Australia right now.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 3:37 pm
1528 - Bern, the strongest canton (territorial division) in southern Switzerland in its day, officially embraced the Protestant faith of Swiss reformers Ulrich Zwingli and John Oecolampadius.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 3:37 pm
1546 - Eleven days before his death, German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'I have a better Caretaker than you and all the angels. He it is who lies in a manger ...but at the same time sits at the right hand of God, the almighty Father. Therefore be at rest.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 3:38 pm
1832 - Birth of Hannah Whitall Smith, American Quaker evangelist and devotional author. Her best-known writing was "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" (1875). It's still in print!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 3:38 pm
1947 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We want to do right, and to be right; so start us in the right way, for Thou knowest that we are very hard to turn.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/11 at 3:38 pm
1869 - Connecticut Congregational clergyman Samuel Wolcott, 56, upon returning home from a YMCA evangelistic service, penned the words to the missionary hymn, "Christ for the World We Sing."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:19 pm
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:19 pm
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1575 – Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:20 pm
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:21 pm
1807 – Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:21 pm
1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:21 pm
1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
Who or what was the Andes named after?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:22 pm
1837 – Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person to be elected as Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:22 pm
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:23 pm
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:23 pm
1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:24 pm
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:24 pm
1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:24 pm
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:24 pm
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:25 pm
1910 – Newspaper and magazine publisher William D. Boyce established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:28 pm
1915 – D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:29 pm
1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:29 pm
1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:29 pm
1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:31 pm
1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:31 pm
1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:31 pm
1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:31 pm
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:31 pm
1955 – The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:32 pm
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:32 pm
1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:32 pm
1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:33 pm
1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:33 pm
1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:33 pm
1966 – The National Hockey League awards Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania a second NHL franchise, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:33 pm
1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:33 pm
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:34 pm
1971 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese ground troops launched an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:34 pm
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:34 pm
1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:34 pm
1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:35 pm
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:35 pm
1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:35 pm
1979 – Denis Sassou Nguesso (pictured) was chosen as the new President of the Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:36 pm
1979 – Denis Sassou Nguesso (pictured) was chosen as the new President of the Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Denis_Sassou-Nguesso.jpg/68px-Denis_Sassou-Nguesso.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:36 pm
1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:37 pm
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:38 pm
1989 – An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:38 pm
1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:38 pm
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:38 pm
1996 – The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:39 pm
2010 – A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:40 pm
1693 - The College of William and Mary was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia for the purpose of educating Anglican clergyman. After Harvard, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:41 pm
1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians, David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervor in the things of God. Oh that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervor.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:41 pm
1851 Death of Alexander Haldane, 83. In 1797 he founded the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, after discovering that the Church of Scotland was as little interested in home missions as it was in foreign missions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:41 pm
1865 - Birth of Lewis E. Jones, American YMCA director. Jones was also a writer of hymns, and his most enduring contribution (which he both wrote and composed) was "Power in the Blood."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/11 at 1:41 pm
1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Sin in a Christian makes God seem distant, deaf. In the body, sin saps animation, as cancer. In the soul, sin stifles the affections; as corrosion in the spirit, sin solidifies the attitudes, as a callous.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:35 pm
474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:36 pm
1849 – New Roman Republic established
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:37 pm
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:37 pm
1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:37 pm
1885 – The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:37 pm
1889 – The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:38 pm
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:38 pm
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:39 pm
1904 – Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:39 pm
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:40 pm
1920 – The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, but all signatories were also given equal rights to engage in commercial activities on the islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:41 pm
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:41 pm
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:41 pm
1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:41 pm
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:42 pm
1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:42 pm
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:42 pm
1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:43 pm
1950 – U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the U.S. State Department of being filled with communists, sparking a period of strong anti-communist sentiment in the United States that became known as McCarthyism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:43 pm
1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:44 pm
1964 – English rock band The Beatles made their first appearance on American variety show The Ed Sullivan Show before a record-breaking audience, beginning a musical phenomenon known as the British Invasion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:44 pm
1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:45 pm
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:46 pm
1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:46 pm
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:47 pm
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:47 pm
1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:47 pm
1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:47 pm
1976 – The Australian Defence Force was formed by the unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:48 pm
1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:48 pm
1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:49 pm
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:49 pm
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally collided with the Ehime Maru (wreckage pictured), a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 2:49 pm
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally collided with the Ehime Maru (wreckage pictured), a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Ehime_Maru_divers.jpg/750px-Ehime_Maru_divers.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:10 pm
1812 - Pioneer missionary Samuel Newell married fellow Congregationalist Harriet Atwood. They afterward sailed for India with Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson. (Harriet Newell and Ann Judson thereby became the first American women commissioned for missionary work abroad.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:10 pm
1819 - Birth of William True Sleeper, New England Congregational clergyman and author of the hymns "Jesus, I Come" and "Ye Must Be Born Again."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:10 pm
1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:10 pm
1930 - American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:10 pm
1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:11 pm
1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:11 pm
1966 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/11 at 4:11 pm
1968 Rotterdam metro opened by Princess Beatrix
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:11 pm
660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:11 pm
55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:11 pm
244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:11 pm
1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:12 pm
1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:12 pm
1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:12 pm
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:12 pm
1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:12 pm
1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:13 pm
1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:15 pm
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:15 pm
1826 – Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important test within the Swaminarayan faith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:15 pm
1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:15 pm
1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:18 pm
1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
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1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
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1873 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
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1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
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1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:20 pm
1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
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1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:20 pm
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:20 pm
1929 – Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
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1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:21 pm
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:21 pm
1939 – A Lockheed XP-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:21 pm
1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:22 pm
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:22 pm
1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:22 pm
1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:23 pm
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:23 pm
1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:23 pm
1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:24 pm
1964 – The Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:24 pm
1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:25 pm
1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
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1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:25 pm
1979 – Islamic revolution of Iran establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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1981 – 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive tits leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:26 pm
1987 – The Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
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1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
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1990 – James Buster Douglas, a 42 to 1 underdog, deals Mike Tyson his first professional loss with the largest upset in boxing history and becomes the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:26 pm
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:27 pm
2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:27 pm
2011 – Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigns and delegates responsibilities to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 1:28 pm
1968 – Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 3:54 pm
1650 - Death of Ren‚ Descartes, 53, French philosopher and mathematician. His last words were: 'My soul, thou hast long been held captive; the hour has now come for thee to quit thy prison...; suffer, then, this separation with joy and courage.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 3:54 pm
1779 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Chance has no share in the government of the world. The Lord reigns, and disposes all things, strongly and sweetly, for the good of them that love him.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 3:54 pm
1858 - In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 3:54 pm
1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We ask Thee not for tasks more suited to our strength, but for strength more suited to our tasks.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/11/11 at 3:54 pm
1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:11 am
881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:12 am
1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:14 am
1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
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1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
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1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
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1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:14 am
1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:15 am
1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:15 am
1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:16 am
1809 – Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, former legal holiday in the United States
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1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:17 am
1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:17 am
1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
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1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:18 am
1832 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
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1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
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1855 – Michigan State University is established.
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1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
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1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
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1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
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1912 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
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1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
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1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
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1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:22 am
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:22 am
1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:22 am
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:23 am
1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:23 am
1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:24 am
1968 – Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:24 am
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:24 am
1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:24 am
1992 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:25 am
1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:25 am
1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
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2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:26 am
2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:26 am
2002 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:27 am
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:27 am
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 1:27 am
2010 – The Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics were held.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:19 am
1797 - Franz Haydn's AUSTRIAN HYMN was first performed for the Emperor Francis II's fifth birthday. Today, AUSTRIAN HYMN is the most common melody to which we sing the popular hymn, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:19 am
1807 - Anglican missionary to Persia Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Amazing patience, He bears with this faithless foolish heart and suffers me to come, laden with sins, to receive new pardon, new grace, every day! Why does not such love make me hate sin that grieves Him and hides me from His sight?'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:19 am
1948 - The Pentecostal awakening known as the "Latter Rain Movement" traces its origin to this date, when students at the Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada began experiencing a mass spiritual awakening.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:19 am
1952 - The Roman Catholic program "Life is Worth Living" debuted on television. Hosted by (then-) Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, the half-hour program aired on Tuesday nights. It became the longest-running religious TV series of its day, and ran through February of 1957.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:19 am
1962 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth predicted in a letter: 'The day will come when we shall no longer speak of Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians but simply of Evangelical Christians forming one body and one people.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:26 am
1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:26 am
1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar
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1964 - Beatles first NYC concert in Carnegie Hall
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/11 at 7:43 am
1967 - Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:02 am
1503 – Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:03 am
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:03 am
1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:03 am
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:03 am
1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
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1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
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1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
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1815 – The Cambridge Union Society is founded.
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1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:05 am
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:05 am
1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:05 am
1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:06 am
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:07 am
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:07 am
1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:07 am
1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:09 am
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:09 am
1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:09 am
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:10 am
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:10 am
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:12 am
1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:12 am
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:12 am
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:12 am
1961 – A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:13 am
1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:13 am
1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:15 am
1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:15 am
1975 – A fire breaks out in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:15 am
1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/11 at 2:15 am
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.