Sun, November 15th, 2009

  

 

 

 

 

                                                             On This Day:

 

    1492: Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco

    1492: In Spain, six persons of the Jewish faith, & five Conversos, are accused of using black magic

    1597: William Shakespeare is cited for not making his second 5 shilling payment

                     on his taxes of 13 shillings and 8 pence

    1715: Barrier Treaty: Austria cedes area to the Netherlands

    1837: The Pittman Shorthand method of stenography is first published

    1889: Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, is deposed; a republic proclaimed

    1899: As a young reporter, Winston Churchill is captured by the enemy in the Boer War

    1932: Walt Disney Art School is opened

    1935: The Commonwealth of Phillipines is inaugurated

    1939: Nazis begin the mass murder of Warsaw citizens of the Jewish faith

    1939: President Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

    1950: The first African American player in organized hockey is signed (Arthur Dorrington)

    1954: The first regularly scheduled commercial flights over the North Pole begin

    1958: Tyrone Power, actor, dies of a heart attack at age 44

    1965: Craig Breedlove sets the land speed record (600.601 mph - 966.57 kph)

    1967: Michael Adams, in the X-15, reaches 80 km in altitude

    1969: 250,000 people peacefully demonstrate against the Vietnam War in Washington DC

    1972: Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 is launched to study gamma rays

    1977: President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah of Iran

    1979: The British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as the 4th man in a Soviet spy ring

    1980: Pope John Paul II begins his 5-day visit to West Germany

    1982: Funeral services are held in Moscow's Red Square for Soviet President Leonid I Brezhnev

    1983: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is proclaimed

    1987: Microsoft releases MS-DOS 3.31 (for larger hard disks)

    1988: The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO,

                     proclaims the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,

                     and recognizes Israeli existence, at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers

    1990: Frank Farian, producer of Milli Vanilli, publicly admits that the group's two singers,

                     Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus,

                     didn't sing on their album and lip-sync only during live performances

    1991: Dow Jones Average drops 120.31 points (its 5th largest percentage dive)

 

 

 

                             Born On This Day:

 

    1397: Nicholas V, pope (1447-55); ended schism, founded Vatican Library (612 years ago)

    1738: Sir William Herschel, astronomer (discovered Uranus) (271 years ago)

    1815: John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas) (194 years ago)

    1862: Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, writer (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912) (147 years ago)

    1874: August Krogh, Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920) (135 years ago)

    1887: Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems) (122 years ago)

    1891: Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (WW II-African campaign) (118 years ago)

    1932: Petula Clark, England, singer (Downtown, My Love) (77 years ago)

    1937: Yaphet Kotto, NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe) (72 years ago)

    1946: Janet Lennon, Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters) (63 years ago)

    1977: Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne (32 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                       Today Is:

   

                                                                                                  (Belgium) King's Day

                                                                                                  (Brazil) Republic Day (1889)

                                                                                                  (Japan) 7-5-3 Festival Day

   

 

 

 

 

                                   There are 46 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                                                                             งานเป็นตัวนำ  คนทำเป็นตัวกำหนด

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     Fri, November 13th, 2009

 

 

 

  

                                                              On This Day:

 

      867: St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    1775: American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

    1789: Ben Franklin writes, in a letter to a friend,

                     “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

    1851: Telegraph service begins between London and Paris

    1875: The Harvard-Yale game becomes the first college football contest with uniforms

    1895: The first shipment of canned pineapple leaves from Hawaii

    1900: The day predicted by the Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death as the end of the world

                     (862 members had burned themselves to death anticipating this date,

                     but the rest disband tomorrow when it proves not to be true)

    1907: French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin-rotor helicopter

    1914: Mary Phelps Jacob of New York is granted a patent for the elastic brassiere

                     (using two handkerchiefs, a ribbon and some soft thread to make the prototype,

                     the “bra” eventually replaces the corset)

    1916: The Battle of the Somme ends:

                     Allied forces finally gain 10 km of ground along the 40 km stretch of the Western front

                     called the Somme, in the prolonged trench warfare that began on July 1st

                     and cost the lives of 600,000 soldiers

    1921: The film “The Sheik,” starring the era's heart-throb Rudolph Valentino, is released

    1921: U.S., France, Japan & the British Empire sign the Pacific Treaty

    1926: The first artificial snowfall is created by dropping dry ice pellets over Mt Greylock New Hampshire

                     (The snowflakes forma at an appoximate altitude of 14,000 feet but melt at 3,000 feet)

    1927: The Holland Tunnel (named after its engineer, Clifford Holland),

                     providing a 9,250-foot roadway (of which 5,480 feet runs under the Hudson River)

                     from New Jersey to lower Manhattan, opens (first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel)

    1941: British aircraft carrier “Ark Royal” is sunk in the Mediterranean

    1942: The minimum U.S. draft age is lowered from 21 to 18

    1952: Harvard's Paul Zoll becomes the first to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest

    1969: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accuses network television news departments of bias & distortion,

                     and urges viewers to lodge complaints

    1970: A cyclone kills an estimated 300,000 in Bangladesh

    1970: Lt. General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following a military coup

    1979: Ronald Reagan, in New York, announces his candidacy for U.S. president

    1982: The Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated in Washington DC

    1982: Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim is fatally injured when KO'ed by Ray Mancini

    1985: Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000

    1992: Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed heavyweight boxing title

                     in a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield (Las Vegas)

    2001: Bishop Wilton Gregory is elected as the first black president

                     of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

    2001: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban abandon the capital Kabul without a fight,

                     allowing the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance fighters to take over the city

    2002: Claiming Iraq is seeking the “path of peace,” Saddam Hussein's government agrees to permitting

                     international weapons inspectors back into the country

 

 

 

                        Born On This Day:

 

    1312: Edward III, king of England (1327-77) (697 years ago)

    1833: Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet) (176 years ago)

    1938: Jean Seberg, Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon) (71 years ago)

    1949: Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson), NYC, actress (Color Purple, Burglar) (60 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                           Today Is:

   

                                                                                  (Grenada, New Zealand) Rememberance Day

                                                                                  (Laos) King's Birthday

   

   

                                                                           Friday the 13th! Beware!

   

 

 

 

                                          There are 48 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 Thu, November 12th, 2009

 

 

 

 

                                                                On This Day:

 

      295: Origin of Era of Ascension

      607: Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

     -324: (BC) Origin of Era of Alexander

    1892: Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 and becomes the first professional football player

    1910: First movie stunt is performed: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

    1915: Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Island

    1918: Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic

    1919: Ross & Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia

    1927: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party,

                     thereby making Stalin the undisputed dictator of the USSR

    1933: Nazis receive 92% of the vote in Germany

    1938: Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland

    1939: The citizens of the Jewish faith of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow arm bands

    1940: Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on a boat on the Great Lakes)

    1941: Germany's drive to take Moscow is halted

    1942: The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begin

                     (the U.S. ends winning a major victory over the Japanese)

    1944: The German battleship “Tirpitz” is sunk off Norway

    1946: The first “autobank” (banking by car) is established (Chicago)

    1948: Japanese premier Hideki Tojo is sentenced to death by the war crimes tribunal

    1950: Gene Roberts sets the NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs. Chicago Cards

    1956: The largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, is first sighted

    1964: Paula Murphy sets the female land speed record (226.37 MPH)

    1965: Venera 2 is launched by the Soviet Union toward Venus

    1977: New Orleans elects its first African American mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial

    1979: The U.S. halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets (during the hostage crisis)

    1980: U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn

    1981: The first balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)

    1982: Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader

    1989: Brazil holds its first free presidential election in 29 years

    1990: Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne

    1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

    1999: President Clinton signs a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers

                     and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products

    1999: An earthquake strikes western Turkey, killing at least 834 people

 

 

 

                             Born On This Day:

 

    1866: Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional) (143 years ago)

    1889: DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921) (120 years ago)

    1929: Grace Kelly, Philadelphia, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)

                     (80 years ago)

    1945: Neil Young, Canada, singer/songwriter (Cosby, Sills & Young) (64 years ago)

    1973: Melanie Gaffin, Santa Monica CA, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids) (36 years ago)

 

 

                                              

                                                                                                       Today Is:

 

                                                                                        (Azerbaijan) Constitution Day

                                                                                        (Bermuda) Rememberance Day

                                                                                        (Saudi Arabia) Coronation Day

                                                                                        (Taiwan) Sun Yat Sen's Birthday (1866)

   

 

 

 

 

                                     There are 49 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                Wed, November 11th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

                                                              On This Day:

 

      537: St. Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    1620: 41 pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, sign the Mayflower Compact,

                     calling for just & equal laws under a “body politick”

    1790: Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

    1811: Cartagena, Columbia declares independence from Spain

    1865: Mary Edward Walker, first female surgeon in U.S. Army, is awarded the Medal of Honor

    1889: The Washington Territory is admitted as the 42nd state of the Union

    1895: Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony

    1918: Armistice Day: WW I ends, at 11am on the Western Front, when the German High Command

                     surrenders to the Allied forces in a railroad car at Compi่gne France

    1922: The largest U.S. flag is displayed (150' X 90'); expanded in 1939 to 270' X 90'

    1925: Robert Millikan announces the discovery of cosmic rays

    1935: Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota

    1938: Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's “God Bless America” on network radio

                     (it is Armistice Day in the U.S.)

    1942: During WW II, Germany completes their occupation of France

    1965: PM Ian D Smith proclaims Rhodesia independence from Great Britain

    1966: Gemini 12, carrying astronauts Jim Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin,

                     is launched from Complex 19 at 3:46:33 p.m. EST, beginning a four-day flight that includes

                     a test rendezvous and docking with an Agena target vehicle and two spacewalks by Aldrin

    1968: John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on the cover of the “2 Virgins” album

    1968: Maldives (in the Indian Ocean) becomes a republic

    1968: Ron Hill sets the record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England

    1969: Beatles, with Billy Preston, release “Get Back” in the UK

    1969: Jim Morrison is arrested by the FBI for drunkenness on an airplane

    1970: The first episode of Sesame Street is aired on the Public Broadcasting Network

    1972: The U.S. Army turns over its Long Bihn base to the South Vietnamese army,

                     symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War

    1975: Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

    1975: Australian PM is removed by the crown (the 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs)

    1982: Solidarity leader Lech Walensa is realeased from jail in Poland

    1983: President Reagan becomes the first U.S. president to address Japan's legislature

    1987: Van Gogh's “Irises” sells for record $53.6 M at auction

    1988: Science Magazine reports discovery of the oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs)

    1993: A bronze statue is dedicated in Washington DC honoring the more than 11,000 American women

                     who served in the Vietnam War

    1994: Bill Gates purchases Leonardo da Vinci 72-page “Codex Leicester” document $30.8 million

    1998: Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratifies a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians

    2000: A fire, in an Austrian cable car filled with skiers and snowboarders

                     while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel, kills 155 people

 

 

 

                         Born On This Day:

 

    1050: Henry IV, Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106) (959 years ago)

    1748: Charles IV, king of Spain (1788-1808) (261 years ago)

    1864: Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911) (145 years ago)

    1869: Victor Emmanual III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia (140 years ago)

    1885: George S Patton, general “Old Blood & Guts” (124 years ago)

    1901: Sam Spiegel, producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai) (108 years ago)

    1945: Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984- ) (64 years ago)

    1955: Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972- ) (54 years ago)

    1962: Demi Moore, (Guynes), Roswell NM, actress (7th Sign, Blame it on Rio) (47 years ago)

    1970: Lee Parkin Starsky, daughter of Ringo (39 years ago)

    1974: Leonardo DiCaprio, LA, actor (Luke-Growing Pains) (35 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                Today Is:

   

                                                                         (Angola) Independence Day (1975)

                                                                         (Belgium, France, French countries) Armistice Day

                                                                         (Bhutan) King's Birthday

                                                                         (Canada, UK) Remembrance Day

                                                                         (Colombia) Cartagena Day (1811)

                                                                         (Maldives) Republic Day (1968)

                                                                         (Poland) Independence Day

                                                                         (Rhodesia) Independence Day (1965)

                                                                         (St Maarten) Concordia Day

                                                                         (West Germany) Repentance Day

 

 

 

 

 

                              There are 50 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Tue, November 10th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                             Day 314 Of The Year

  

 

 

                                   On This Day:

 

      461: St Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    1674: Dutch formally cedes New Netherlands (NY) to Great Britain

    1775: The U.S. Marine Corps is established by Congress

    1864: Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

    1918: The independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski

    1928: Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan

    1933: Black Blizzard snowstorm: dust storm rages from South Dakota to the Atlantic

    1945: General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

    1945: The Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by U.S. troops

    1950: Jacobo Arbenz Guzman is elected president of Guatemala

    1951: The first long distance telephone call, without operator assistance, is made

    1954: Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising the U.S. flag) is dedicated in Arlington

    1954: Lt. Col. John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled

    1957: An NFL-record crowd (102,368) watches the '49ers vs. the Rams in Los Angeles

    1971: The U.S. table tennis team arrived in China

    1978: Israel's top negotiators break from Middle East peace talks

    1984: IBM releases PC-DOS 3.1

    1989: Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall

    1989: Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped

    1990: Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)

 

 

 

                                                        Born On This Day:

 

    1683: George II, king of England (1727-60) (326 years ago)

    1819: Cyrus West Field, financier/success of first transatlantic cable (190 years ago)

    1844: Sir John SD Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94) (165 years ago)

    1895: John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air) (114 years ago)

    1925: Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) (84 years ago)

    1935: Roy Scheider, Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws) (74 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                         Today Is:

   

                                                                      (India) Guru Nanak's Day-1st teacher of the Sikhs

                                                                      (Indonesia) Hero Day/Youth Day

                                                                      (Iran) Death of Iman Ali Day

   

 

 

 

 

                                     There are 51 days left in this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                                                                               แต่หมายถึงมีมากพอ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        Sat, October 17th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

                                                         On This Day:

 

      532: Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    1492: Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)

    1777: Americans win victory at Saratoga-American Revolution

    1777: British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY

    1855: Bessemer steel-making process patented

    1894: The Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing an African American man

    1904: Bank of Italy (Later re-named Bank of America) opens its doors.

    1918: Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic

    1931: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

    1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany

    1941: First American destroyer torpedoed in WW II, USS Kearny off Iceland

    1945: Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina

    1956: England's first large scale nuclear power station opens

    1957: Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House

    1957: French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

    1967: Barbra Streisand stars on “Belle of 14th Street” special on CBS

    1967: Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km

    1973: 5 month oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. & Netherlands begins

    1975: First Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Technology Labs, Mississippi

    1977: West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu Somalia,

                     freeing 86 hostages & kill three of the four hijackers.

    1979: D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8

    1979: Mother Teresa of India awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

    1986: U.S. Senate approved immigration bill

                     prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

    1987: First lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy

    1987: First World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome)

    1989: An earthquake registering 7.1 on the Richter scale hits San Francisco during the World Series

                     (the quake kills 67 people and causes $7 billion in damages)

    1997: The remains of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara are buried in his adopted country - Cuba

                     (30 years after his execution in Bolivia)

    2001: The House of Representatives announces plans to close for an anthrax sweep

                     after 31 people at the Capitol test positive for exposure to anthrax

    2001: Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi is shot to death

                     (the first assassination of a current Cabinet minister by Palestinians)

 

 

 

                         Born On This Day:

 

    1912: John Paul I, 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1978) (97 years ago)

    1919: Rita Hayworth, NYC, actress (Gilda, Pal Joey) (90 years ago)

    1920: Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity) (89 years ago)

    1949: Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Adam-East of Eden) (60 years ago)

    1957: Vincent Van Patten, Belrose NY, actor (Apple's Way, 3 for the Road) (52 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                           Today Is:

   

                                                                                                      (Haiti) Dessalines Day (1806)

                                                                                                      (Malawi) Mother's Day

   

   

                                                                                            African American Poetry Day (1711)

 

 

 

 

 

                                    There are 75 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                          Fri, October 16th, 2009

  

 

 

 

                                                           On This Day:

 

    1701: The Collegiate School is founded in Killingworth Connecticut

                     (moves to New Haven and becomes Yale in 1745)

    1781: Revolutionary forces led by General George Washington take Yorktown

    1846: William T. G. Morton, a dentist and second year medical student,

                     successfully uses ether to anesthetize a patient with a jaw tumor

    1847: Charlotte Bront๋’s novel “Jane Eyre” is first published (without her name)

    1849: British seize Tigre Island (in the Gulf of Fonseca) from Honduras

    1867: Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar, crosses the international date line

    1918: A patent is granted to Marvin Pipkin for frosted light bulbs

    1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded

    1940: The Warsaw Ghetto is established

    1943: Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system

    1946: Ten Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after the Nuremberg trials

    1957: Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia

    1962: The Cuban missile crisis begins as President John F Kennedy is informed that

                     reconnaissance photographs reveal the presence of missile bases in Cuba

    1964: China becomes the world's fifth nuclear power when it test detonates its first atomic bomb

    1967: Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators are arrested

                     for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland California

    1970: Anwar Sadat is elected president of Egypt, succeeding assassinated President Gamal Abdel Nasser

    1972: Creedance Clearwater Revival announces the group is breaking up

    1973: Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho are jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize (Tho declines the award)

    1976: Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min and 54 seconds

    1978: Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected pontiff by the College of Cardinals

                     of the Roman Catholic Church (he takes the name of John Paul II)

    1981: Israeli general Moshe Dayan dies at age 66

    1982: Mount Palomar Observatory is the first to detect the 13th return of Halley's Comet

    1984: Desmond Tutu, African Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    1985: Intel introduces the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

    1987: Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into an abandoned well shaft in Midland Texas

    1990: The size of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf reaches 200,000 troops

    1995: A large assemblage of African American men gather in Washington DC

                     for the “Million Man March,” led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan

    1998: David Trimble and John Hume

                     are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord

    1998: British police arrest former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London for questioning about

                     allegations that he had murdered Spanish citizens during his years in power

    1999: A New York Air National Guard plane rescues Dr. Jerri Nielsen from a South Pole research center

                     after she had spent five months isolated by the Antarctic winter,

                     which forced her to treat herself for a breast lump

 

 

 

                        Born On This Day:

 

    1758: Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) (251 years ago)

    1854: Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills), Dublin Ireland, (Picture of Dorian Gray) (155 years ago)

    1863: Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925) (146 years ago)

    1886: David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, first PM of Israel (1948-53, 55) (123 years ago)

    1888: Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936) (121 years ago)

    1946: Suzanne Somers, San Bruno CA, actress (3's Company, Step by Step) (63 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                       Today Is:

   

                                                                                             (Jamacia) National Heroes Day

       

 

                                                                                    National Boss Day

   

                                                                                    World Food Day

   

                                                                                    Sweetest Day-help the less fortunate

 

 

 

 

 

                                  There are 76 days left in this year.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      Thu, October 15th, 2009

  

 

 

 

 

                                                             On This Day:

 

    1520: King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall

    1582: Many Catholic countries switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar,

                     skipping 10 days

    1655: Citizens of the Jewish faith of Lublin are massacred

    1789: First presidential tour: George Washington in New England

    1815: Napoleon is exiled to the island of St. Helena

    1846: Dr. William Thomas Green Morton first public use of ether

    1860: Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell, of Westfield NY,

                     writes a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln,

                     suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard

    1917: Mata Hari,

                     a Dutch dancer who spied for the Germans, is executed by a firing squad outside Paris

    1937: Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have & Have Not” is first published

    1941: Citizens of the Jewish faith caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls can be put to death

    1946: Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisons himself hours before he was to have been executed

    1964: The USSR announces that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev has been removed from office

                     (he is succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin

                     and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev)

    1966: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating the Department of Transportation

    1969: Vietnam Moratorium Day: peace demonstrators stage activities across the country,

                     including a candlelight march around the White House,

                     as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War

    1976: The first debate between major-ticket vice presidential nominees is televised

                     (Democrat Walter Mondale vs Republican Bob Dole)

    1977: Debbie Boone's “You Light Up My Life,” goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks

    1978: Congress passes the Humphrey-Hawlins Full Employment Act,

                     setting a national goal of 4% unemployment by 1983

    1983: U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport

    1985: Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island

                     (6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds)

    1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

    1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk

                     are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end apartheid

    1997: British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green twice drives a jet-powered car in the Nevada desert

                     faster than the speed of sound, shattering the world's land-speed record

    1999: The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

 

 

 

                             Born On This Day:

 

    1785: Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14) (224 years ago)

    1829: Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos (180 years ago)

    1917: Arthur Schlesinger Jr, historian/author (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson) (92 years ago)

    1921: Mario Puzo, author (Godfather) (88 years ago)

    1946: Richard Carpenter, New Haven CT, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You) (63 years ago)

    1951: Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbeldon Finals 1979) (58 years ago)

    1955: Tanya Roberts, (Leigh), Bronx NY, actress (Charlie's Angels, Sheena) (54 years ago)

    1959: Sarah Ferguson, (Fergie), Duchess of York (50 years ago)

    1991: Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates & Kevin Kline (18 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                         Today Is:

       

                                                                                        (French Guiana) Cayenne Holiday

                                                                                        (Tunisia) Evacuation Day

   

   

                                                                                                        Mushroom Day

   

                                                                                        National Forest Products Week

   

                                                                                        National Grouch Day

   

                                                                                        World Poetry Day

 

 

 

 

 

                                        There are 77 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              Fri, October 9th, 2009

 

 

 

 

                                                    

                                                            On This Day:

 

    1446: The Korean Hangual alphabet is devised

    1701: Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale University) is chartered in New Haven

    1820: Guayaquil Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador

    1855: Joshua Stoddard, of Worcester Massachusetts, is granted a patent for the calliope

    1865: Oil is first pumped through a pipeline near Titusville Pennsylvania (the pipe is about five miles long)

    1876: The first two-way telephone conversation is made over outdoor, above-ground wires,

                     using existing telegraph wires (the two persons who made the first phone call,

                     Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson,

                     speak ot each other between Cambridge and Boston Massachusetts)

    1915: Woodrow Wilson becomes the first President to attend a World Series game

    1930: The first transcontinental flight by a female pilot,

                     Laura Ingalls, takes off from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field

    1934: King Alexander of Yugoslavia is assassinated by Georgief, a Croatian terrorist

    1936: Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

    1947: The first phone conversation is held between a moving car and an airplane

    1950: General MacArthur orders troops across the 38th parallel in Korea

    1961: Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth

    1962: Uganda gains independence from Britain

                     and becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth (National Day)

    1965: The Beatles' “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

    1967: Latin American guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed in Bolivia

                     while attempting to incite revolution (his remains are identified in July 1997)

    1970: Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

    1975: Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco

    1975: Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    1984: Kathy Sullivan becomes first female form the U.S. to walk in space

    1985: With the world yet to know of the death of passenger Leon Klinghoffer by PLF hijackers,

                     the Achille Lauro cruise liner arrives and anchors in Port Said Egypt. Yasser Arafat,

                     chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),

                     acting as an "interested third party," sends two emissaries to "negotiate" a settlement

                     with the PLF hijackers. Abbu Abbas, a high ranking officer in the PLO and

                     the leader of the PLF, is one of the two "negotiators" and is accompanied by ambassadors

                     from West Germany and Italy. The hijackers accept an offer from Egypt's President

                     Hosni Mubarak guaranteeing safe passage out of Egypt to the country of their choice

                     if they release the ship and its passengers unharmed. The terrorists "accept,"

                     leave the Achille Lauro at 4:30 pm. Egypt, lying, claims that they immediately leave

                     the country for an undisclosed destination

    1986: Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical “Phantom of the Opera” opens in London

 

 

  

                        Born On This Day:

 

    1547: Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote) (462 years ago)

    1906: Leopold Senghor, poet/president of Senegal (1960-80) (103 years ago)

    1927: Robert Shaw, actor (From Russia with Love, Man for All Seasons) (82 years ago)

    1940: John Lennon, rock musician/song writer (The Beatles/Imagine) (69 years ago)

    1975: Sean Ono Lennon, John's son (34 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                     Today Is:

   

                                                                (Ecuador) Guayaquil's Independence Day (1820)

                                                                (Hong Kong) Confucius' Birthday

                                                                (Khmer Republic) Republic Day (1970)

                                                                (Peru) Day of National Dignity (1968)

                                                                (South Korea) Hangual Day/Korean Alphabet Day (1446)

                                                                (Sweden) Ingrid name day

                                                                (Tanganyika) independence day (1961)

                                                                (Uganda) Independence Day (1962)

   

 

 

 

 

                                   There are 83 days left in this year.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        Wed, October 7th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

                                                               On This Day:

 

              3761: (BC) Origin of Jewish Mundane Era

      336: St Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    1571: Turkish fleet is defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto

    1816: The first double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived in New Orleans

    1826: The first chartered railway in U.S. to be incorporated and operated as a transportation business,

                     the Granite Railway, begins operations in Quincy Massachusetts

                     by hauling sixteen tons of granite from the Bunker Hill Quarry by horse over wood rails

                     to a wharf at Gulliver's Creek on the Neponset River

                     (horse-drawn "engines" are used to pull the cars on the rails)

    1868: Cornell University is inaugurated in Ithaca NY

    1886: Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba

    1908: Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece

    1913: Henry Ford introduces the “assembly line” to manufacture automobiles,

                     organizing workers in a sequence of specialized tasks that assemble cars,

                     from framework to a completed car, on a moving assembly line

                     (the time to complete a car is cut from 13 hours to 1ฝ hours)

    1931: The first infra-red photographs are taken at the Eastman Kodak laboratories in Rochester NY

    1938: Germany demands that the passports of all persons of the Jewish faith

                     are to be stamped with the letter J

    1949: The Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)

                     is formed from the Russian occupation zone (former National Day)

    1950: The U.S.-led U.N. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel

    1957: RCA Victor announces they have received 500,000 advance orders for Elvis’ Christmas album

    1958: The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed “Project Mercury”

    1959: The far side of the Moon is seen for first time,

                     in data sent back to Earth by the USSR's Luna 3 space probe

    1960: “Route 66” premieres on television

    1963: President Kennedy

                     signs documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the USSR

    1968: The Motion Picture Association of America adopts a rating system of “G” to “X” for movies

    1981: Egypt's parliament names Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat

    1982: The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opens in New York City

                     (beginning its record run of 7,485 performances)

    1985: This morning, on the Italian cruise ship “Achille Lauro,”

                     four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) walk out of cabin 82

                     and into the main dining room to find only a small number of passengers there

                     (the majority of passengers are off the ship in Alexandria Egypt, on a tour of the area.)

                     Armed with AK-47s, grenades, and handguns, the four terrorists they begin firing

                     their weapons at random, wounding two people before stopping, They gather up

                     the 320 crewmen and 80 remaining passengers, and begin seperating them by nationality.

                     The American and British hostages are placed together and surrounded with oil drums,

                     which the terrorists threaten to light on fire.

                     They then order the ship's Captain to set sail for the Syrian port of Tartus.

                     Once at sea they demand the release of 50 Palestinians being held by the Israeli government.

    1985: Lynette Woodward is chosen to be the first female player on the Harlem Globetrotters

    1988: The Latvian flag is raised in Riga for the first time since annexation by USSR

    1988: Robin Givens files for divorce after 8 months of marriage to Mike Tyson

    1989: Hungary's Communist Party renounces Marxism in favor of democratic socialism

                     during a party congress in Budapest

    1990: As a result of Iraq's Gulf War activities, Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens

    2000: Vojislav Kostunica takes the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president

                     (ending the turbulent era of Slobodan Milosevic)

    2001: U.S. and British warplanes and submarines launch the first attack on Afghanistan,

                     targeting Taliban government airports and military sites,

                     and Al Queada terrorist training camps (U.S. also air lifts food to remote villages

                     throughout the country and to over 1 1/2 million Afghanistani refugees in Pakistan

                     in danger of starvation)

 

 

 

 

                         Born On This Day:

 

    1879: Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile) (130 years ago)

    1885: Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist-expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922) (124 years ago)

    1914: Sarah Churchill, London England, daughter of Winston Churchill/artist/actress

                     (All Over Town, Royal Wedding) (95 years ago)

    1931: Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) (78 years ago)

    1943: Oliver North, military man (Iran-Ccontra hearings) (66 years ago)

    1955: Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist (54 years ago)

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                       Today Is:

   

                                                                                                (Fiji) Deed of Cession (1874)

                                                                                                (Libya) Evacuation Day

                                                                                                (Sweden) Birgitta name day

   

 

 

 

 

                                    There are 85 days left in this year.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                          Mon, October 5th, 2009

 

 

 

 

                                                                 On This Day:

 

    1450: Citizens of the Jewish faith are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX

    1582: Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries

    1646: A bounty of 100 pounds of tobacco is offered in the Virginia Colony

                     for evidence of having killed a wolf

    1843: The first female college professor, Rebecca Mann Pennell,

                     begins teaching geography and drawing at Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio

    1864: Battle of Allatoona: 1/3 of the Union troops die repulsing the South

    1864: Most of Calcutta is destroyed by a cyclone

    1867: Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska

    1908: Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey (Ferdinand I becomes Tsar)

    1910: Portugal overthrows its monarchy and proclaims itself as a republic

    1915: Germany issues an apology and offers a promise of payments for sinking the Lusitania on May 7th

    1921: The current constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect

    1931: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon pilot the first, nonstop trans-Pacific flight

                     (Japan to Washington in 41 hours)

    1934: “Hollywood Hotel”

                     becomes the first major network radio program to be broadcast from Hollywood

    1947: The first Presidential address is televised from the White House (President Harry S Truman)

    1947: Queen Mary meets with her son, the ex-king David, the Duke of Windsor,

                     for the first time in ten years,

                     but she refuses to receive his wife the American divorce Wallis Simpson

    1962: Beatles release their first record, “Love Me Do,” in the UK

    1970: Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser,

                     who collapsed and died on September 29th

    1974: David Kunst completes the first journey around the world on foot,

                     returning home to Waseca Minnesota (in 4 years & 107 days,

                     and 21 pairs of shoes, he crossed four continents and 13 countries, walking 14,450 miles)

    1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature

    1979: Charlie Smith dies in Barstow Florida at the claimed-age of 137

                     (he was reputed to be the last American slave, having been born in West Africa)

    1983: Polish leader Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    1984: 13th Space Shuttle Mission, Challenger 6, is launched,

                     carrying the first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit

    1986: American Eugene Hasenfus is captured by Sandinista soldiers

                     after the weapons plane he was in is shot down over southern Nicaragua

    1986: The London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

 

 

 

 

                         Born On This Day:

                     Born On This Day:

    1713: Denis Diderot, France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopedique) (296 years ago)

    1830: Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, 21st U.S. president (R)

                     (9/20/1881-3/3/1885 took office after James Garfield died) (179 years ago)

    1864: Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made first motion picture in 1895 (145 years ago)

    1887: Rene Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968) (122 years ago)

    1929: Richard F Gordon Jr, Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12) (80 years ago)

    1941: Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles) (68 years ago)

    1957: Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris' sister (52 years ago)

    1962: Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986) (47 years ago)

    1975: Kate Winslet, Reading England, actress (Titanic) (34 years ago)

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                    Today Is:

   

                                                      (Azores, Guinea-Bisau, Maderia, Portugal) Republic Day (1910)

                                                      (Bulgaria) Independence Day (1908)

                                                      (Indonesia) Army Day

                                                      (Lesotho) Sports Day

   

      

                                          (World) Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) (1st Monday)

 

 

 

 

                          There are 87 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                 อะไรเอ่ย :     หลั่งมาเองเหมือนฝนอันชื่นใจ   จากฟากฟ้าสุราลัยสู่แดนดิน 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            Sat, October 3rd, 2009

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                Day 276 Of The Year

 

 

  

 

                       On This Day:

 

    2333: (BC) Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)

    1430: Citizens of the Jewish faith are expelled from Eger Bohemia

    1789: President George Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day

                     will be celebrated on November 26th

    1863: President Lincoln issues a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November

                     as Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.

    1913: The first Federal income tax is signed into law (at 1%)

    1918: Boris becomes king of Bulgaria

    1922: The first facsimile photo is sent over city telephone lines (Washington DC)

    1929: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia

    1932: Iraq gains full independence from Britain

    1935: Italy invades Ethiopia

    1947: The first telescope lens measuring 200” (508 cm) in diameter is completed

    1952: The first video recording on magnetic tape (Los Angeles California)

    1967: Air Force pilot William "Pete" Knight flies the X-15 to a record 4,534 MPH (7,297 KPH/Mach 6.72)

    1968: A military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru

    1978: Gold hits a record $223.50 an ounce in London

    1983: Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release “Say, Say, Say” in the UK

    1988: Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)

    1989: The Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails

    1990: East and West Germany reunite as a single country, after being divided since WWII

 

 

 

                                                           Born On This Day:

 

    1800: George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame) (209 years ago)

    1803: John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration (206 years ago)

    1888: Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935) (121 years ago)

    1904: Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987) (105 years ago)

    1951: Kathryn D Sullivan, Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45) (58 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                        Today Is:

   

                                                                        (Bangladesh) Jamat Ul-Wida

                                                                        (Honduras) Morazcn Day/Soldier's Day

                                                                        (Iraq) Independence Day (1932)

                                                                        (Netherlands) Relief of Leyden Day (1573-74)

                                                                        (South Korea) National Foundation Day (2333 BC)

   

 

 

 

 

                           There are 89 days left in this year. 

 

                                                                                                             คำคมจากท้ายรถ:    จนก็ย่ำยี  มีก็อิจฉา

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 Mon, September 28th, 2009

  

 

 

 

 

                                                            On This Day:

 

    1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay

    1628: John Endecott and “about 100” colonists establish a farming and fishing settlement at Naumkeag

                     (which will become Salem Massachusetts)

    1858: Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed

    1867: Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario

    1879: Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route

    1906: U.S. troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909

    1914: German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

    1922: Mussolini marches on Rome

    1928: Juan de la Cierva makes first helicopter flight over English Channel

    1939: Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR

    1944: Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands

    1951: Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards

    1958: Guinea votes for independence from France

    1959: Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth

    1961: Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic

    1963: Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds

    1963: Italy's Giuseppe Camtarella skates a record 25.78 MPH

    1964: Australia beats U.S. in first clay court Davis Cup

    1965: Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km

    1968: Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr

    1968: Beatles' “Hey Jude,” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

    1968: Marisa Danisi of W Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr

    1970: Anwar Sadat replaces Nassar as President of Egypt

    1972: Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations

    1974: First lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy

    1978: Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord

    1979: Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds

    1980: Jaromir Wagner is first to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing

    1986: Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

    1988: Bronx Museum for the Arts opens

    1990: Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame

    1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat sign an accord

                                   to transfer a large portion of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents

    2000: Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon

                     sparks new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount

 

 

 

                         Born On This Day:

 

     -490: Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon (2499 years ago)

    1820: Freidrich Engels, social philosopher & closest collaborator of Karl Marx (189 years ago)

    1841: Georges Clemenceau, France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss) (168 years ago)

    1852: Henri Moissan, France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906) (157 years ago)

    1913: Alice Marble, tennis player (U.S. Open 1936, 1938-40) (96 years ago)

    1924: Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8ฝ, La Dolce Vita) (85 years ago)

    1934: Brigitte Bardot, Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women) (75 years ago)

    1972: Gwyneth Paltrow, Los Angeles, actress (Shakespeare in Love, Emma) (37 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                      Today Is:

      

                                                                               (Guinea) Referendum Day (1958)

                                                                               (Hong Kong) Moon Cake Festival

                                                                               (Libya) Shawwal 14

                                                                               (Sweden) Lennart Name Day

                                                                               (Taiwan) Confucius' Birthday/Teachers' Day

   

   

 

 

 

                                  There are 94 days left in this year.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  Sat, September 26th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

                                                             On This Day:

 

    1542: Juan Rodrํguez Cabrillo discovers California,

                     leading the first European expedition of the U.S. west coast in his flagship the San Salvador

    1580: Sir Francis Drake returns to England

                     after his 2-year and 10-month voyage circumnavigating the globe

    1687: The Athenian Acropolis, held by the Turks, is heavily damaged by Venetian forces

    1820: Frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri at age 85

    1871: D.O. Saylor, of Allentown PA, is granted a patent for cement

    1907: New Zealand becomes a dominion

    1918: The Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany begins during WW I

                     (the final Allied offensive on the western front)

    1931: The keel is laid for the first aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger

    1950: United Nations troops recapture the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans

    1953: Sugar rationing ended in Britain (began during WWII)

    1955: The NY Stock Exchange has its worst price decline since 1929

                     when news of President Eisenhower's heart attack becomes public

    1957: The musical “West Side Story,” opens on Broadway

    1960: The first televised debate between presidential candidates is broadcast

                     when Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy hold debates in Chicago

    1960: Cuban president Fidel Castro makes the longest speech in United Nations history

                     (4 hours and 29 minutes)

    1962: The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)

    1965: The Beatles are decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth

    1966: Japan launches its first satellite into space

    1968: Police drama “Hawaii Five-O” debuts on CBS-TV

    1972: President Nixon dedicates and opens the American Museum of Immigration

                     at the base of the Statue of Liberty

    1973: Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3 hours and 33 minutes

    1973: Wilt Chamberlain signs with the ABA's San Diego Conquistadors

    1980: The Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor

                     ending the “freedom flotilla” of immigrants attempting to flee Cuba since last April

    1981: The new, larger twin-engine Boeing 767 makes its maiden flight in Everett Washington

    1983: Australia II wins the America's Cup yacht race (America loses for the first time in 200 years)

    1984: Britain & China initial the agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

    1984: President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

    1985: Shamu, the first killer whale to survive being birth in captivity,

                     is born at Sea World in Oralando FL

    1988: Canada's Ben Johnson is stripped of his 100-m gold after failing to pass a drug test

    1988: The Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as the new Prime Minister

    1989: Vietnamese troops leave Cambodia after 11 years of occupation

    1990: The Supreme Soviet in Russia ends decades of religious repression with a new declaration,

                     forbidding government interference in religious activities

                     and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools

    1990: The Motion Picture Association of America creates a new NC-17 rating for movies

                     to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films

    1991: Four men and four women begin a two-year stay inside the sealed structure, Biosphere 2,

                     in Oracle Arizona, a project intended to develop technology for future space colonies

    2000: Slobodan Milosevic concedes that his challenger,

                     Vojislav Kostunica, finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election and declares that

                     a runoff election is required (this prompts mass protests that lead to Milosevic's ouster)

    2001: In Boston, memorial ceremonies are held by pilots and other airline employees

                     for the crew members lost aboard the two airplanes used in the attack

                     on the World Trade Towers (Bett Midler sings "You Are The Wings Beneath My Feet")

 

 

 

                        Born On This Day:

 

    1729: Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator (280 years ago)

    1820: Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) (189 years ago)

    1848: Vladimir Remek, first Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28) (161 years ago)

    1888: T S Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948) (121 years ago)

    1947: Lynn Anderson, ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden) (62 years ago)

    1948: Olivia Newton-John, Cambridge England, actress/singer (Grease, Xanadu) (61 years ago)

    1956: Linda Hamilton, Salisbury Maryland, actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast) (53 years ago)

    1962: Melissa Sue Anderson, California, actress (Little House on the Prairies) (47 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                               Today Is:

   

                                                     (New Zealand) Dominion Day

                                                     (Sri Lanka) Bandaranaike Day (1959)

                                                     (Yemen Arab Rep, Yemen Peo Dem Rep) Revolution Day (1962)

 

 

 

 

 

                             There are 96 days left in this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               Thu, September 24th, 2009

  

 

 

 

 

                                   On This Day:

 

      312: Start of Imperial Indication

      366: Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

      787: Second Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor

    1493: Columbus' Second expedition to the New World

    1625: Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico

    1682: persons of the Jewish faith are expelled from all French possessions in America

    1829: Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

    1841: Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei

    1853: First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)

    1869: Black Friday: The U.S. economy nearly collapses

                     after Jim Fiske and Jay Gpuld attempt to capture the Gold Market.

    1895: First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

    1938: Don Budge becomes first tennis player to grand slam

    1950: Operation Magic Carpet”-All persons of the Jewish faith from Yemen move to Israel

    1955: President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver

    1957: President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas

                     to enforce desegregation of the Little Rock Public School System.

    1960: First atomic powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is launched.

    1972: Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)

    1972: NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colt (44-34)

    1973: Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence

    1973: St. Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals

    1982: Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26

    1982: U.S., Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon

    1985: Fastert English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)

    1988: Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected first woman Episcopal bishop

    1988: Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec

    1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathalon woman's record (7,291)

    1990: South African president F.W. de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington DC

    1990: Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market

    2001: Memorial services are held at Yankee Stadium

                     for the families of those lost in the World Trade Tower terrorist attacks

                     (hosted by Oprah Winfrey, the three-hour service includes leaders from many religions,

                     chorale groups and singers, including Bett Midler singing "You Are The Wings")

 

 

 

 

                                                                                    Born On This Day:

 

    1870: Georges Claude, inventor (neon light) (139 years ago)

    1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minnesota, author (Great Gatsby) (113 years ago)

    1898: Baron Howard Florey, Adelaide Australia, pathologist who led the team

                     that rediscovered & purified penicillin (Nobel '45) (111 years ago)

    1939: Manfred Worner, Secretary General of NATO (70 years ago)

    1941: Linda Eastman McCartney, NYC, Mrs Paul McCartney, rocker (Wings-Ram) (68 years ago)

 

 

 

 

 

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                  Sat, September 19th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

                                                           On This Day:

 

    1356: English defeat the French at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years War

    1783: The Montgolfier brothers (Joseph and Jacques) send up the first hot-air balloons

                     with living creatures (a sheep, a cockerel, and a duck) on an eight-minute flight

                     from Versailles France that is watched by King Louis XVI (it reached a maximum altitude

                     of about 1,640 ft and landed unscathed in the forest of Vaucresson, 2 miles (3.5km)

                     from the point of departure)

    1848: Bond (U.S.) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn

    1876: President James A Garfield, who had been shot July 2nd in a railroad station in Washington,

                     dies at the family's summer home on the New Jersey shore

                     (his physicians kept doing surgery to remove the bullet based on readings

                     from a new type of metal detector,

                     but it was discovered later that it had been detecting the metal bedsprings)

    1876: Melvin R Bissell, of Grand Rapids Michigan, is granted a patent for the carpet sweeper

    1879: Thomas Ray becomes the youngest to break a world track & field record

                     by pole-vaulting 11' 2” at age 17 years & 198 days

    1888: The world's first beauty contest is held at Spa in Belgium

                     (the crown is won by an 18-year old girl from Guadeloupe)

    1893: New Zealand becomes the world's first country to grant female citizens the right to vote

    1940: A Nazi decree forbids Christian woman from working in Jewish homes

    1945: Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce), England's WWII Nazi propagandist, is sentenced to death in London

    1955: Juan Peron is ousted from power in Argentina and goes into exile in Spain

    1957: The U.S conducts its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas

    1958: Elvis Presley leaves for Germany to join his Army unit

    1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev becomes angry, during a visit to Los Angeles,

                     after being informed that, due to security reasons, he won't be allowed to visit Disneyland

    1960: Cuban leader Fidel Castro checks out of the Shelburne Hotel,

                     angered by a dispute with its management (he is in New York to visit the United Nations)

    1968: A baby is born on the Golden Gate Bridge

    1980: Titan II missile explosion (Damascus Arkansas)

    1981: Satellites China 10 & 11 are launched into Earth orbit by a B-1 rocket

    1982: Streetcars stop running on Market Street in San Fransisco after 122 years of service

    1983: St. Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (National Day)

    1985: The Mexico City area is hit by the first of two earthquakes (6.9) that claim more than 6,000 lives

    1988: Israel launches its first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

    1989: The Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens

    1994: U.S. troops peacefully enter Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide

    1996: The government of Guatemala and Leftist rebels sign a peace treaty ending their war

 

 

 

                        Born On This Day:

 

        86: Antoninus Pius, 5th Roman emperor (138-161) (1923 years ago)

    1802: Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849) (207 years ago)

    1898: Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71) (111 years ago)

    1902: James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis (107 years ago)

    1911: William Golding, England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) (98 years ago)

    1928: Adam West, Walla Walla Washington, actor (Batman, Last Precinct) (81 years ago)

    1965: Debbye Turner, Miss America (1990) (44 years ago)

 

 

 

                                                                                                         Today Is:

   

                                                                                                   (Bhutan) Blessed Rainy Day

                                                                                                   (Chile) Army Day (1810)

   

 

 

 

 

                                    There are 103 days left in this year.