~ 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.

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.

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

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 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

It's June 2nd ~ what happened today?

455 Gaiseric & Vandals sack Rome

575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1129 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis

1619 England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies

1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1627 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company

1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne

1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet

1697 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic

1746 Russia & Austria sign agreements

1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London

1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)

1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC)

1835 P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US

1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)

1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer

1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC

and Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC

1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2

1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces

1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)

1873 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad

1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US

1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens

1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris

1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
and Chicago's "E" opens to traffic

1886 Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)

1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon

1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
and Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
and Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth

1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome

1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)

1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)

1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances

1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians

1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak

1930 1st baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal
and Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati

1932 Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres

1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air

1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua

1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
and German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins

1944 Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
and Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands

1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)

1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns

1948 Jerry Mathers (Leave it to Beaver) is born

1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan

1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones

1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland

1955 Dana Carvey (Comedian) is born

1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow

1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev

1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio

1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF

1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
and Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass

1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)

1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing

1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston

1968 Canadians must get govt permission to export silver
and WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast

1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer
"Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1971 Ajax wins Europe Cup

1972 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden

1974 Mali adopts constitution
and Malta's constitution goes into effect

1975 1st time snow fell in London in June
and James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)

1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia

1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
and NASA launches space vehicle S-198

and Pope John Paul II visits Poland

1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be

1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati

1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
and B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617
and Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines

1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
and Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
and Nancy Lopez beats Alice Miller for the LPGA

1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
and Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins

1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
and Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
and Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting
and students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1991 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win

1992 Former NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
and Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"

1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
and Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"

2004 Websleuther "Hugh" announces he is having a baby!

Wesbsleuther Birthdays today - Graybar-Hotel :HappyBday:HappyBday

On This Day - June 3

959AD: Edgar, first King of All England, was crowned on Whit Sunday by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Saxon abbey on the site of the present Bath Abbey.

1899: Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, violinist and conductor who wrote The Blue Danube waltz, died.

1899: England cricket captain WG Grace played his final Test match, aged 50, against Australia at Trent Bridge.
1901 - Maurice Evans was born
actor: Macbeth, Planet of the Apes, Batman, Bewitched;

1925 - Tony Curtis was born
actor: Some Like It Hot, The Great Impostor, The Defiant Ones, Houdini, Trapeze, The Boston Strangler, Christmas in Connecticut, The Count of Monte Cristo

1929 - Chuck Barris was born
producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Three’s a Crowd; producer/host: The Gong Show; songwriter: Palisades Park; novelist: You and Me, Babe

1931: The Baird Company televised the Epsom Derby, which was transmitted by the BBC.

1937: The Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, married Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.

1946: The first bikini bathing suit was unveiled in Paris, invented by Louis Reard, a former motor engineer.

1956: Third class rail travel was abolished in Britain and renamed second class.

1965: The Gemini 4 spaceship was launched, with James McDivitt and Edward White on board. During the flight White became the first American to walk in space.

1971: The longest running comedy in theatre history, No Sex Please We’re British, opened in London, with Michael Crawford in the cast. It closed on September 5, 1987.

1978: The Guinness Book of Records went into the Guinness Book of Records – as the most stolen book from British libraries.

D Day
 

Casshew you have a big day soon, June the 6th, TV full of remembrance programmes over here.

June 4th ~ Today in History!


1674 - Horse racing became a nag to the good people of Massachusetts, because the sport was prohibited in the state.

1816 - The Washington, the first stately double-decker steamboat, was launched at Wheeling, WV.

1738 - King George III - was born
King of Great Britain and Ireland [1760-1811] during time of the American Revolutionary War against the British; died Jan 29, 1820

1831 - The independent constitutional monarchy of Belgium named Prince Leopold as its first king. 109 years later, less one week, King Leopold’s descendant, Leopold III, surrendered to Germany.

1896 - Henry Ford took a trial run in his Ford automobile around the streets of Detroit, MI.

1917 - Laura E. Richards and Maude H. Elliott, along with their assistant, Florence Hall, received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography. The title of their work was Julia Ward Howe. With Americans of Past and Present Days, by Jean Jules Jusserand, received the first prize for history; while Herbert B. Swope picked up the first reporter’s Pulitzer. He wrote for the New York World. Altogether, these were the very first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded.


1924 - In memory of all the soldiers from the state of New York who died in the first World War, an eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City.

1924 - Dennis Weaver - was born
actor: Gunsmoke, McCloud, Gentle Ben, Disaster at Silo 7, Lonesome Dove: The Series

1931 - The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.

1934 - The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, recorded Annie’s Cousin Fanny on the Brunswick label. The track featured trombonist Glenn Miller, who also vocalized on the tune.

1939 - Sylvan Goldman introduced the first grocery-store shopping cart in Oklahoma City, OK. The original shopping cart was actually a folding chair mounted on wheels.

1942 - Glenn Wallichs did what was called ‘promotion’ for Capitol Records in Hollywood. He came up with the idea that he could send copies of Capitol’s new records to influential radio announcers all around the U.S. and, maybe, add to the chances that stations would play the records. The practice would soon become common among most record labels.

1944 - Leonidas Witherall was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like William Shakespeare.

1949 - Jack Kramer defeated Bobby Riggs and won the men’s pro-tennis title.

1962 - The legendary sportscaster Clem McCarthy died. McCarthy was the first to announce the running of the Kentucky Derby back in 1928.

1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Bob Feller’s 1951 record by pitching a third career no-hit baseball game. Koufax blanked the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0. He struck out a dozen Phillies’ batters.

1974 - Cleveland Indians public relations experts thought that ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ would bring out the fans and otherwise help the slumping Indians -- a team no one cared to watch. The promotion was a disaster. Oh, sure, there was plenty of dime brew sold at Municipal Stadium that night. But there were soon plenty of drunken, surly, unruly fans, too, which made it possible for the Indians to forfeit the ball game to the Texas Rangers. Municipal Stadium could seat some 60,000 fans and only 22,000 showed up for the frolic and merriment.

1975 - Angelina Jolie - was born
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Girl, Interrupted; Gia, George Wallace, Cyborg 2, Foxfire, Playing by Heart, Tomb Raider, Original Sin; daughter of actor Jon Voight)

1984 - For the first time in 32 years, golfing-great Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the U.S. Open golf tournament. Palmer missed making the tourney by two strokes.

1987 - Edwin Moses, who had won a total of 122 consecutive victories in the 400-meter hurdles, was defeated by Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain. It had been ten years since Moses had lost the event.

1989 - Democracy took a hard blow this day in Peking as the People’s Army of China opened fire on crowds of demonstrators. What began as a student demonstration on behalf of democracy a month and a half earlier, had become a demonstration of hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life defying the government ban on the students’ action. Armored tanks of the People’s Army literally rolled over demonstrators as the world watched in horror as the tragedy unfolded on live TV. The government issued statements claiming that only a few had died. Other estimates of the deaths in Tiananmen Square ranged from hundreds to several thousand. There is no contradiction of the fact that thousands of demonstrators were later jailed.

June 5 - What happened today?


1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier were brothers. They made their first balloon ascension on this day. This means that their balloon went up, successfully, we might add, to 1,500 feet for about ten minutes.

1865 - Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly and with pride as his composition, Onward Christian Soldiers, was presented for the first time in Horbury, England.

1876 - For one thin dime, visitors to Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition were able to buy foil-wrapped bananas, a popular taste treat in the United States. We tried one as an experiment for lunch today -- and heartily agree! It is especially interesting how the aluminum foil creates a kind of buzzing feeling on your teeth as the banana gets chewed up!

1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.

1941 - Roy Eldridge was featured on trumpet and vocal as drummer Gene Krupa and his band recorded After You’ve Gone for Okeh Records.

1942 - Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded the classic I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen for Victor Records.

1952 - ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott defended his heavyweight-boxing title by out-pointing Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia, PA. Jersey Joe would lose the heavyweight crown four months later to Rocky Marciano.

1956 - Elvis Presley made his second appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre. Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel, his number one hit. The TV critics were not kind to Elvis’ appearance on the show. They panned him, saying his performance looked “like the mating dance of an aborigine.”

1959 - Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. Zimmerman was known as a greaser to classmates in the remote rural community, because of his long sideburns and leather jacket. Soon, Zimmerman would be performing at coffee houses at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and later, in Greenwich Village in New York City. He would also change his name to Bob Dylan (after poet Dylan Thomas, so the story goes).

1964 - David Jones and The King Bees had their first record, Liza Jane, released by Vocalion Records of Great Britain. Less than a decade later, we came to know Jones better as David Bowie.

1967 - Ongoing political problems (control and reunification of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, etc.) came to a head, causing a major outbreak of hostilities (later referred to as the Six Day War) between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis, who had at first met strong Egyptian resistance, destroyed 50 of Egypt’s tanks and stormed through Gaza, and this was only Day One; the beginning of a quick and ferocious victory for the Israeli ground and air forces, led by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; and a humiliating defeat for Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both sides are still blaming the other for firing the first shot.

1967 - New franchises in the National Hockey League were awarded to the Minnesota North Stars, the California Golden Seals and the Los Angeles Kings. The North Stars moved to Dallas in the mid-1990s and the Golden Seals are now nonexistent.

1968 - While celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was shot in the head. He died the following day. The gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, was later convicted of the murder.

1972 - Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TV’s Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway.

1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made this day -- by Jim Crowford of Winston-Salem, NC.

1985 - Steve Cauthen rode Slip Anchor to the winner’s circle. He was the first American jockey in 79 years to win the Epsom Derby, Great Britain’s premier flat racing event.

1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s Nightline. It is believed that this was a record for the longest live-TV broadcast, other than of space coverage and political conventions.

Websleuthers having a birthday today ~ sleepingbeauty :blowkiss:

Hi Hugh ~ yes there is a lot going on here in Canada as well.

In 1994 when I was in he UK we took the hovercraft from Dover to Calais and went to Vimy Ridge ~ quite something to see.


11,000++ Canadian names carved on the memorial at Vimy Ridge

1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.

1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.

1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.

1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near Taylorsville, KY.

1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.

1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in New York City, NY

1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City,NJ

1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.

1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1932 - In the U.S. the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.

1933 - In Camden, N.J. the first drive-in movie theater opened.

1934 -U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

1935 - The Dalai Lama was born.

1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.

1941 - The U,S, government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.

1942 - The first nylon parachute jump was made by Adeline Gray in Hartford,
CT

1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

1946 - The Basketball association of American was formed in New York City, NY
1966 - James Meridith was shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.

1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.

1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.

1982 - Israel invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to drive PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.

1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."

1993 - Mongolia held its first direct presidential elections.

2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The date was left at June 11

June 7th ~ here is what happened on this day

1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.

1546 - Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England.

1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France.

1712 - The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.

1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States

1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.

1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first "dime novel."

1863 - Mexico City was captured by French troops.

1892 - J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.

1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.

1900 - Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.

1903 - Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.

1909 - Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in "The Violin Maker of Cremona."

1917 - Dean Martin was born

1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

1932 - Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, demanding their bonuses.

1935 - Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc.

1937 - The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.

1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the US It was the first visit to the US by a reigning British monarch.

1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.

1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.

1944 - Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

1948 - The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.

1955 - "The $64,000 Question" premiered.

1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995.

1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.

1968 - In Operation Swift Saber, US Marines swept an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.

1972 - The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway. It had been playing off-Broadway for about 4 months.

1976 - "The NBC Nightly News", with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.

1981 - Anna Kournikova was born

1993 - Woody Allen lost his custody battle against Mia Farrow.

1993 - Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol.

1994 - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.

1998 - James Byrd Jr., at age 49, was murdered in Jasper, TX Byrd had been dragged to death behind a pickup truck. On February 25, 1999 William King was sentenced to the death penalty for the racial crime while two other men charged awaited trial.

2000 - U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.

2002 - Michael Skakel was convicted of beating his neighbor Martha Moxley to death in 1975. The two were 15 years old at the time.

2002 - In Chicago, IL - R. Kelly was booked on child pornography charges. He had been arrested two days before and released after posting bond.

Websleuther's having a birthday today ~ Checko :blowkiss:

On June 7, 1958 I was going to have my first child in THREE days'!

HAHAHAHAH
Just trying to keep this going Cass.......
what a neat thread! I've never been here before....

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It is June 8th ~ What happened today?

0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.

0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.

1783 - Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight months. 9,350 people were killed and famine started and lasted until 1790.

1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time.

1790 - The first loan for the US was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.

1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.

1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a US patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.

1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the US Congress.

1904 - US Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect US citizens.

1915 - US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over US handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

1947 - "Lassie" debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show.

1948 - Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" NBC-TV. It was the show's debut.

1953 - The US Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC

1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a mjor league baseball record when four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning.

1965 - US troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively.

1967 - Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 US Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The US has never publicly investigated the incident.

1968 - James Earl Ray was captured at the London Airport. He was suspected of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's number (7).


1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.

1982 - US President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship.

1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings.

1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War.

1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.

1995 - US Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was resuced byUS Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down.

1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.

1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.

1998 - In the USthe FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.

1998 - Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.

1998 - The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending Americas three-year partnership with Russia.

2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.

2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace

2004 - The transit of Venus. The planet Venus moves between the Earth and the Sun, visable for the first time in over 120 years.

Websleuther's Birthdays today ~ Coolmomof4 :blowkiss:

Welcome to June 9th

68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.

1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.

1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.

1860 - "Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter" was published. It was the first dime novel.

1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.

1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in "The Wise Little Hen."

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).

1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.

1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.

1965 - Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds. He broke the record set by Peter Snell in 1964.

1972 - American advisor John Paul Vann was killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.

1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.

1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the Boston Celtics.

1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.

1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.

2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assissination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.

2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.

Websleuther's having birthday today ~ Mountaingal :p :)

It's June 10th ~ something interesting must have happened today

1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the US The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first US newspapter to cover the sport of harness racing.

1854 - The USNaval Academy in Annapolis, MD held its first graduation.

1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

1898 - USMarines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.

1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.

1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.

1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.

1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.

1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).

1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.

1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War.

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1971 - The US ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.

1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennesee Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977.

1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.

1984 - The US Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.

1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.

1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.

1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to SC

1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.

1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.

1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.

1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

1994 -US President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. US commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the US

1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.

1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.

1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.

1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.

1998 - The WI Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.

1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Zak :blowkiss:

On this Day ~ June 11th

1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1488 - James III of Scotland was murdered after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling. He was succeeded by his son James IV.

1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1847 - Sir John Franklin died in Canada while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin was an English naval officer and an Arctic explorer.

1880 - Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the US Congress.

1889 - The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.

1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first US patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup by members of the Serbian army.

1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.

1912 - Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.

1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.

1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.

1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.

1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia,PA

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 - The US and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.

1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.

1945 - Adrienne Barbeau was born

1947 - The US government announced an end sugar rationing.

1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the US Open.

1955 - In France, 80 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack. The cars had ploughed into the spectator's grandstand.

1956 - Joe Montana was born

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

1963 - Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.

1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.

1972 - Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.

1973 - After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.

1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.

1981 - The first major league baseball player's strike began. It would last for two months.

1981 - In Iran, more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter Scale. The town of Golbaf in the Kermin province was destroyed.

1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened.

1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan died at age 31. Quinlan was a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision.

1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.

1990 - The US Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.

1993 - The US Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.

1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

1994 - A car bomb blew up in Guadalajara, Mexico killing five people. The bombing was believed to be drug related.

1998 - Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal, IL had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.

1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Shae209 :HappyBday

What a day
 

Henry VIII marries by far his best wife and Joe Montana was born, those pesky scots lost a king as well I may have a few beers on that lot tonight