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~ Today in History ~
Hi there ~ I am starting a new feature here in Bizarre News... "Today in History" and will update it everyday. Feel free to add things I have missed :D or make comments... I am hoping this can be an enjoyable thread for everyone.
What happened on May 12th? 1820 - Florence Nightingale was born today ~ health activist, nurse: promoted the nursing profession, contributed to modern nursing procedures. 1831 ~ The first indicted bank robber in the U.S., Edward Smith, was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison. 1907 - Katharine Hepburn ~ born today ~ Academy Award-winning Actress: Morning Glory [1932-33], Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [1967], The Lion in Winter [1968], On Golden Pond [1981]; Adam’s Rib, Pat and Mike, The African Queen, The Rainmaker, Rooster Cogburn, Suddenly Last Summer, Mary of Scotland, Love Affair 1932 ~ Missing Lindburgh baby is found, badly decomposed off the highway. 1955 - Sam Jones of the Chicago Cubs pitched a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, winning 4-0. Jones became the first black pitcher to throw a major-league no-hitter. 1971 - The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias. Mick couldn’t remember her whole name very well, so she became known as Bianca the world over. 1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it would alternate men’s and women’s names in the naming of Hurricanes. “It’s not fair that women should get all the attention for causing damage and destruction,” one women’s activist claimed. David, Allen, Hugo, Mitch and Andrew agreed. |
neat thread cass, i'll come by and see what's old once and awhile.
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Mrs Hugh will be celebrating Katherine Hepburns birthday. She loved her, even named our daughter after her.
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That is a great story hugh :) |
What happend May 13th?
1648 ~ Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck. 1787 ~ The first fleet of ships carrying convicts to the new penal colony of Australia left England. (They arrived the following January) 1846 ~The United States declare war on Mexico 1880 ~ Thomas Edison tested his experimental electric railway in Menlo Park. 1917 ~ Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary 1938 ~ "When the Saints Go Marching In" was recorded by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. 1950 ~ Stevie Wonder, American singer 1967 ~ Mickey Mantle hit his 500th homerun. 1981 ~ Pope John Paul II was shot and seriousy injured. 1992 ~ Robert Reed dies at 59 (Brady Bunch Dad) 1995 ~ New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup 2004 ~ Rupert gets a million bucks on Survivor!! (unconfirmed ~ but I am hopeful) Go Rupert!! :dance: |
I'm related to one of the crew members from the 1995 New Zealand America's Cup Crew. I remember when they won. Big deal in my family.
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What happened on May 14th?
1643 ~` Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 1804 ~ 200 years ago, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis. 1862 ~ Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph 1897 ~ A statue of George Washington was unveiled in Philadelphia 1904 - The Olympic Games opened in St. Louis, MO. It marked the first time that the games were held in the United States. 1944 ~ George Lucas film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti was born. 1960 ~ "The Pill" hit the market to prevent unwanted pregnancies 1973 ~ the United States launched Skylab One, its first manned space station. 1998 ~ singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. 2003 ~ Smugglers abandoned more than 100 illegal immigrants in a locked trailer at a Texas truck stop; 19 people died. Websleuths members having Birthdays today ~ Anniegirl, Buzzie & Luanne :) |
May 15th ~ what happened today??
Today is Saturday, May 15, the 136th day of 2004. There are 230 days left in the year. This is Armed Forces Day. 1602 ~ Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold. 1886 ~ poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Mass 1918 ~ U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York 1926 ~ The New York Rangers became the newest franchise to be awarded by the National Hockey League. Two years later, the Rangers won their first Stanley Cup. 1930 ~ Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo. 1940 ~ nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States. (Also known as Casshew Day :D ) 1942 ~ gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles. 1970 ~ Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests. 1999 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin triumphed over his Communist foes, surviving an impeachment vote in the Russian parliament. Websleuths Members celebrating birthdays today are close_enough & akgal :cool: |
May 16th ~ What happened today?
136th day of year with 229 days left 1568 ~ Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England 1770 ~ Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France 1804 ~ Napoleon declared Emperor of France 1817 ~ Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1866 ~US Treasury Dept authorizes the nickel 1875 ~ Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000 1891 ~ Spam was introduced by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. 1905 ~ Henry Fonda, American oscar winning film actor is born 1919 ~ Liberace was born 1920 ~ Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint 1929 ~ The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) are held 1941 ~ Germans made their last major air attack on Britain 1965 ~ Spaghetti-O's 1st sold 1977 ~ Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title 1984 ~ Andy Kauffman Dies 1986 ~ "Top Gun," premieres 1990 ~ Sammy Davis Jr. & Jim Henson Die Websleuths Members celebrating Birthdays today FlowerGirl & Brandigirl :HappyBday |
Good thread Cass, love it. I would think (re: may 16) Sammy Davis & Jim Henson dying on the same day... too many jokes. I think Sammy would think that's very funny.
BTW, Andy Kauffman's not dead, he lives with Elvis. ;) |
May 17th ~ What happened today??
218 ~ 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1875 ~ Oliver Lewis rode Aristides winning a purse of $2,850 in the first running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs 1877 ~ Edwin T. Holmes of Boston, MA. installed the first telephone switchboard burglar alarm. 1910 ~ Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins 1911 ~ Maureen (Paul) O’Sullivan was Born 1928 ~ 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam 1938 ~ The NBC Blue network presented Information Please for the first time. The radio quiz show was moderated by Clifton Fadiman. 1949 ~ British government recognizes Republic of Ireland 1971 ~ The musical, Godspell, opened this night at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City 1973 ~ Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" 1975 ~ NBC-TV paid a whopping $5,000,000 for the rights to show Gone with the Wind just one time. It was the top price paid for a single opportunity to show a film on television. 1975 ~ Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album was released and certified a platinum record on the very same day. 1984 ~ Mario Soto of the Cincinnati Reds threw four strikeouts in one inning. 1985 ~ Bobby Ewing died on the season finale of Dallas on CBS-TV. Bobby, played by actor Patrick Duffy, died in a violent car explosion, but came back to life the following season 1998 ~ New York Yankees pitcher David Wells pitched a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins. 2003 ~ Tammie Willis, who lost her hearing after a 1994 robbery-assault, becomes the first deaf student to earn a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. |
It's May 18th ~ so what happened today??
1652 ~ A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced. 1792 ~ Russian troops invade Poland. 1802 ~ Britain declares war on France. 1804 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France. 1828 ~ The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends. 1860 ~ Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president. 1864 ~ The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle. 1868 ~ Nicholas II, the last Russian czar is born 1896 ~ The Supreme Court's decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the "separate but equal" policy in the United States. 1897 ~ Frank Capra, film director (It's A Wonderful Life) is born. 1917 ~ The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I. 1918~ John Paul II [Karol Jozef Wojtyla], the present Roman Catholic pope is born 1928 ~ Pernell Roberts , actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD) is born 1931 ~ Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship. 1933 ~ President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. 1936 ~ The Spanish Civil breaks out 1942 ~ New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II. 1944 ~ The Allies finally capture Monte Cassino in Italy. 1951 ~ The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city. 1969 ~ Two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assault Hill 937 but cannot reach the top because of muddy conditions. 1974 ~ India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. 1980 ~ After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours. 1990 ~ Treaty forming the basis for monetary union between East and West Germany signed 1992 ~ Lawrence Welk bandleader (L Welk Show), dies at 89 of pneumonia |
May 19th ~ What happened today?
715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir 1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles 1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary 1585 Spain confisquates English ships 1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England 1635 France declares war on Spain 1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army and Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England 1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen 1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley 1780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained 1792 Russian army enters Poland 1793 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795) 1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia Mdaga of Saksen-Weimar 1856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery 1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1874 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #138 Tolosa 1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield 1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded 1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands 1902 Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria 1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ 1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes 1909 Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Jack O'Brien fight to no decision 1910 Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings 1911 Phila Athletics are 12« games back in AL, & will win World Series 1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system 1925 Malcolm X [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims) is born 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners 1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa 1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in NYC 1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact 1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz 1945 Peter Townshend England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (Who-Tommy) is born 1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah) 1958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 (tybee LOL) 1959 Nicole Brown Simpson is born 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island 1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy 1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 1980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash 1984 Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 1989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run 2161 Still to happen - 8 of 9 planets will align on same side of sun |
It's May 20th ~ what happened today?
325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nic‘a, Asia Minor 526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria 1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1495 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India 1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands 1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland 1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg 1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II 1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY 1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain 1784 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris) 1825 Charles X becomes King of France 1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) 1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii 1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle 1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West 1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured 1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage and Royal Albert Hall foundation laid 1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant 1870 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment 1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz 1875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty 1882 Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance 1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC) 1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months) 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain 1908 Jimmy Stewart (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life) was born 1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII 1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918) 1918 1st electrically propelled warship (New M‚xico) 1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550 1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK 1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic 1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger & air mail service 1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia 1944 US Communist Party dissolved 1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army 1950 Hill Prince wins Preakness 1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state 1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll and Jordan government of Samir resigns 1959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog 1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia 1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team 1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam 1969 US troop march into Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam 1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway 1980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss 1989 China declares martial law in Beijing 1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space 1993 Final "Cheers" on NBC 1994 Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00 1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung Ws Members celebrating birthdays today ~ Sonnier6 & Misti ~ Happy Birthday! |
Today is May 21st ~ I bet you are wondering what happened today :D
143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed 685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor 1216 French crown prince Louis enters England 1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 1471 King Edwards IV enters London 1502 Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena 1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) 1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins 1832 1st Democratic party national convention 1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii 1861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital 1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton 1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago 1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota 1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 1930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers 1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands 1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor) 1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots" 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured 1948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR) 1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens 1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations 1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR 1981 Fran‡ois Mitterrand becomes president of France 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1 1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore 1989 Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship 1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs Websleuthers having a birthday today ~ GardenMom :blowkiss: |
What happened today? Today is Saturday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2004. There are 223 days left in the year.
12 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China 760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac 1629 Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lbeck 1659 France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty 1712 Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary 1746 Russia & Austria signs treaty of cooperation 1761 the first life insurance policy in the United States was issued, in Philadelphia. 1762 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty 1784 Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy 1807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila) 1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1836 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf 1843 1000+ colonies depart Independence Missouri for Oregon 1868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash 1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1877 Baden-Baden wins Kentucky Derby 1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters 1885 Tecumseh wins Preakness 1900 Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 1906 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens 1906 Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane 1909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched 1910 Johnny Olson TV announcer (Price is Right) in born 1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row 1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) 1924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks 1927 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed 1928 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act 1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) 1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis and Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1941 British troops attack Baghdad 1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan 1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece 1959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF 1960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM 1964 LBJ presents "Great Society" 1965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 1967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface 1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified 1977 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) 1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau 1980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry 1983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR 1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado 1988 K roly Gr¢sz succeeds party leader J nos K d r in Hungary 1992 Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ 1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show 1994 Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo 1999 Columbine High School seniors wearing blue-and-silver gowns marched single file in a graduation ceremony that mixed celebration of the day with sorrow for victims of the recent massacre. 2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas Websleuthers celebrating birthdays today ~ MarineMom :clap: :D |
Today is May 23rd ~ I wonder what happened today?
1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France 1275 King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews 1420 Jews of Syria & Austria expelled 1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled 1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to England 1493 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis 1498 Vasco da Gama arrives in Calcutta 1533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void 1536 Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition 1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed 1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory 1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia 1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland 1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England 1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees 1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed 1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution 1844 Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) 1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) 1856 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis 1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia and Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession 1862 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia and Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia 1864 Battle of Dallas, GA and Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1865 Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)and Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot 1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force forms and Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time 1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) 1878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa 1883 Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC 1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF 1900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY 1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 and Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent and US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo 1903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1 1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die 1911 NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft 1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Cura‡ao officially opens 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei 1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC 1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate 1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England 1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds 1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) 1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) 1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented and British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 and Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad and Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland and Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die 1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires 1941 Heavyweight Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer (disqualification) in Wash DC and Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) 1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 1945 British milt police arrest admiral D”nitz 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) 1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF 1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China 1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers 1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria and Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 1966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer" 1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London 1969 The Who release rock opera "Tommy" 1970 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England) 1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands 1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 General strike in Peru 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina 1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa 1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named 1992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game 1994 Funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Websleuthers celebrating birthdays today are starry and kpass :HappyBday |
I have tried to do May 24th twice now... once yesterday and once today - when I hit submit - I get an error response and lose the whole post - I am going to have to say that nothing happened on May 24th!! :rolleyes: :crazy:
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Tuesday May 25th ~ What happened today?
585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse 1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/Le¢n occupy Toledo on Moren 1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany 1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen 1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector 1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover 1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragan‡a 1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000 1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent 1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek 1787 Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding 1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day) 1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela 1825 American Unitarian Assn founded 1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus 1862 Battle of Winchester VA 1864 Battle of New Hope Church, GA 1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Qu‚bec 1876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14) 1878 Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London 1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die 1898 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF 1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics 1906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Red Sox lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0 1911 Revolution in M‚xico overthrows President Jos‚ Porfirio Diaz 1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule 1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #874 Rotraut 1924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1030 Vitja 1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) 1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean 1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1244 Deira 1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates 1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1393 Sofala 1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY 1939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president 1940 German troops conquer Boulogne 1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India 1943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers 1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia 1945 Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit 1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan 1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 1948 Ben Hogan wins PGA golf tournament 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai 1950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC 1951 NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5) 1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada 1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas 1959 Khrushchev visits Angola 1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout" 1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game 1964 Frank Gilroy's "Subject was Roses," premieres in NYC 1965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage 1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die 1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon 1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash" 1969 Sudan military coup under colonel Ja'far al-Numeiry 1970 Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander 1973 Argentine Peronist Hector C mpora installed as president 1975 Warriors beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 0 1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich 1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released 1978 "Star Wars" released 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") 1981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified 1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters 1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released 1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida 1988 PSV wins Europe Cup 1989 Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens for Stanley Cup 1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews 1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show" Websleuths Birthdays Today ~ Lotusgran and Ja1 :blowkiss: |
It's May 26th ~ I'm sure something happened today
961 German King Otto II crowned 1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 1538 GenŠve throws out Calv˜n 1596 England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain 1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven Ct kills 500 indians 1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony 1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French 1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia 1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain 1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress 1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South and Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL 1864 -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia and Territory of Montana organized 1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith 1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote 1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration 1887 Legal betting at race tracks begins 1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player 1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY and Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) and Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned 1898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG) 1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia 1907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game 1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC) 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England 1916 F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair 1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field 1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke 1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run and Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg 1924 German govt of Marx resigns and Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution 1927 15 millionth T-Ford produced 1928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4 1930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway 1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo and C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia 1933 2nd emergency Dutch govt of Col˜n forms and Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards 1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago 1936 1st govt of Zealand in Belgium ends 1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms and San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens 1938 House on un-American Activities begins work 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila and Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck and German occupiers begin youth labor 1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star and Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) and Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam and Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa 1944 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste MŠre Eglise 1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo 1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague and Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia and Patent filed in US for H-Bomb 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers and South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy 1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London 1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election and Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 and Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed and US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) and Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark 1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta and USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1963 Organization of African Unity forms and Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a doubleheader 1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes and Revised Intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hu‚ South-Vietnam and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth and John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution and Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 and Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) and Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres 1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled 1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov 1977 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway and George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center and Movie "Star Wars" debuts 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City 1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" and Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters and Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam 1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 and LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws and NASA launches Exosat and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 C & E Shoemaker discover asteroid #3317 Paris and Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla and Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia and Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die 1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka 1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio and Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC and Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 1991 Austria passenger flight explodes in Bangkok, 223 die 1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's Websleuther's having birthday today include AlwaysHope and & Babs :HappyBday :HappyBday |
May 27th ~ What happend on this day
1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake 1647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass 1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire 1679 Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK 1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland 1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov 1813 Americans capture Ft George, Canada 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado 1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning 1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die and Siege of Port Hudson LA 1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia 1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43) 1887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo) and Bay District Race Track closes and Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die 1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam 1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) 1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima 1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF 1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx 1917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed 1918 Battle of Aisne 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afgh nist n achieves sovereignty 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war and Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va and Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon 1933 Austrian communist party banned and Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago and Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 and Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released 1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage 1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) and Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated 1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta and FDR proclaims an "unlimited national emergency" and German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor and Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered and Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris and US forbid racial discrimination in war industry 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) and Japanese advance in Hangkhou China and Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid 1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens 1952 European Defense Community forms 1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections 1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 1956 French riot in Algiers and US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS and Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) and Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey 1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence and Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon and Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' «" 1963 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils) 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US and Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes and 6 French fighters crash above Spain 1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3 and NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises and Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship 1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars" and Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup and Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1977 NYC fines George Willig 1› for each of 110 stories he climbed 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson and John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol and Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no and Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey 1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress 1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in NYC and C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius and Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day 1985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island and Norway Showcase groundbreaking 1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal and Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna and Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton) 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs and C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia and Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show and Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35) |
May 28th in History
585 -BC- Battle at the Halys between Medi‰ & Ludi‰ ends and -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclipse Persian-Lydian battle ends 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) 1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" 1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet 1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia 1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising 1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V 1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage 1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida 1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua 1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid 1664 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston) 1674 German Parliament declares war on France 1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated 1741 Spain & Bavaria sign treaty 1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1754 George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts) 1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia) 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie 1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed 1849 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate 1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London 1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1866 Dutch govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms 1868 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike 1871 Paris communards revolt put down 1880 Grenanda wins Preakness 1892 Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern 1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) 1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) and Parader wins Preakness 1904 Bryn Mawr wins Preakness 1905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria 1906 Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in NYC 1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held 1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent 1919 Armenia declares it's Independence 1926 Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal and US Customs Court created by congress 1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited, NYC 1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ 1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic and Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid and Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Z�rich 1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up and British-French strike captures Narvik Norway and Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC 1941 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5) and British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1942 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich 1943 British militia reaches Tito 1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1) 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht and Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run 1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" 1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 and Nashua wins Preakness 1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games 1957 NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site and WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 French govt of Pflimlin resigns 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts and Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London and Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission 1961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) and Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY and US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day and Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed and Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) and Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya 1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 9th String quartet and Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli and PLO forms in Jerusalem and Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit 1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad 1967 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd Violin concert and Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions and NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise and Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon 1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid 1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" and USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars 1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate 1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) 1974 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis and Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed and Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC 1975 Bayern M�nchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris and Soyuz 18 launches 1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times 1979 European Market accepts Greece as member 1980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning and Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5" and Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid 1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight and Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain 1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon and Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados 1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR and Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta and Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn and Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) and Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500 1990 C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia and Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa 1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror and Polish govt of Suchocka falls 1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tam pa begins using new area code 941 |
May 29th ~ What happened today?
149th day of year with 216 days left 526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die 757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II 1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa 1415 Council of Konstanz 1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire and French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated 1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont 1576 Spanish army under Mondrag¢n conquerors Zierik sea 1630 Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England" 1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp 1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth and King Charles II's entry into London 1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France and Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated 1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony 1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia 1753 Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres 1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed 1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution 1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte and Wisconsin becomes 30th state 1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln 1861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia (Ital goddess of groves) and Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 1864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz 1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect 1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate 1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia and August Strindbergs "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen 1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co 1902 Dutch State Mine law forms 1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania 1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run 1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers 1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500 1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break 1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die 1916 NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game and Official flag of president of US adopted and US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington 1922 Ecuador becomes independent and US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 1935 Hague local museum opens 1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) and Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague 1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date 1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) and Meat & cheese rationed in US 1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy 1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa 1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands 1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends 1953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest 1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married and Pope Pius X issues holy declaration 1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns 1956 Arnold Sch”nberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres and WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast 1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators and Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns 1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels 1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French govt 1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1 1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show" 1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium 1967 Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19 1968 Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground) 1971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2127 Tanya 1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating and $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records 1977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time and NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500 and Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one 1978 1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years) and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres 1980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League pres and J Turners "Juliet & her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC and Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m 1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin) 1985 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer and Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor and Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains and Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games 1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan 1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49 and NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson and Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record 1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I 1992 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games 1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany 1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph) and Great comet-iceball seen above North sea and Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election |
May 30th ~ Today in History
1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders 1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad 1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht 1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex 1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church 1434 Battle at Lipany 1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America 1522 French troops driven out of Genoa 1527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded 1536 English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour 1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida 1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France and Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot) 1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland 1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England 1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau 1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague 1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire 1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public 1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication 1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 1832 �variste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31) 1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians and William Young patents ice cream freezer 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery and Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created 1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked 1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth and Battle of Front Royal, VA 1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA and Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia 1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague) 1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves 1879 92øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May and Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden 1889 Brassier is invented 1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game 1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated and Memorial Day 1st observed in US 1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader 1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved and Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System and Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane and US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized 1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv 1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH) 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua 1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London and Conclusion of 1st Balkan War and New country of Albania, formed 1921 Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London and Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany 1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord and Lincoln Memorial dedicated Cubs 1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres 1924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri and Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators and Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy 1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph) 1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins 1933 Patent on invisible glass installation 1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies 1937 Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament and Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die and Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory and Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium 1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia and English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government and German capture Kreta 1942 1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers) and Reichsf�hrer Himmler arrives in Prague and US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers and US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians 1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die 1949 East Germans constitution approved and NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname and WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1951 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in Chicago 1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres 1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs and Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2) and Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres 1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting and Said el-Mufti forms Jordan govt and Tunisia begins domestic self governing 1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida and US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) 1959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua and Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament and World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England 1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die and Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs 1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) and Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres 1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia and Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1 1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground) and Viet-cong offensive against US base Da Nang and Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam and Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph) and US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon 1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria and King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo and Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" and President De Gaulle disbands French parliament and University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up and West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law 1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp and Gibraltar adopts constitution and People revolt in Willemstad, Cura‡ao 1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice and Train crash at Pigeon droppings, 5 die and US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched 1972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport 1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup 1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms and Wings release "Venus & Mars" album 1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) 1977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0 1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich and Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 and Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC 1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million 1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday) 1982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds and Spain becomes 16th member of NATO 1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome 1985 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched and Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500 and France performs nuclear test 1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square 1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house 1990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru and Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56 1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record time (21,096 km) 1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven becomes 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old and NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48) and NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams and Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ SieSie! :HappyBday:HappyBday |
May 31st - something had to happen today
70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1564 Battle on Gotland: L�beck & Denmark beat Sweden 1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night 1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1659 Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1727 France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris 1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk 1790 US copyright law enacted 1821 1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape the Good Hope 1837 NY's Astor Hotel opens . . . most elaborate in US 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance 1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line and Mint at New Orleans closes 1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) 1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky 1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition and Madison Square Garden opens its doors 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 1884 John Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger 1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1912 US marines land on Cuba 1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London 1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats 1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup and Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" and Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat and Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan 1937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak and German battleships bomb Almeria Spain 1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria 1940 Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken and Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1941 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) and 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) and British troops vacate Kreta and German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury and Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament 1943 Joe Namath was born & Sharon Gless was born 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary and Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 and Italian govt of Gasperi forms 1949 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament Charley Lupica begins stay on 4ý' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing and to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days) 1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins 1951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord and S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize 1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government and WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities and Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike and Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" 1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) 1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" and US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) 1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern and Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated and JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate and Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim and SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins) 1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy & Brooke Shields was born 1967 Bayern M�nchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" and Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" 1970 7.75 Earthquake aftershocks hit Peru; 50-70,000 die and At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake (50-70,000 die) and KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup in Rotterdam 1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition 1976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London 1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar and Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed 1979 J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek and Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens and Zimbabwe proclaims independence 1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1983 Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88 and Guatemala adopts constitution and New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 1987 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup and Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska 1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC) and 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards and Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce 1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1992 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win 1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Rudy96 :HappyBday |
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