On This Day in History day-by-day

reghakr · Jul 6, 2011

On This Day in History: Wednesday, Jul 06, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1747, John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight."
--> 1946, Sylvestor Stallone, "Yo!"
--> 1952, Shelly Hack, actress, angel.
--> 1954, Allyce Beasley, actress.

Events on this day in history:
--> 1885, First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur, who also invented pasteurization to prevent food from spoiling.
--> 1886, Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.
--> 1928, Preview of first all-talking motion picture took place in NYC.
--> 1932, First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
--> 1933, First All-Star baseball game. American League won 5-2.
--> 1954, Elvis Presley, makes his first record at age 19.

reghakr · Jul 8, 2011

On This Day in History: Friday, Jul 08, 2011

Famous people born on this day:
--> 1839, John D. Rockefeller.
--> 1951, Angelica Houston, actress.
--> 1958, Kevin Bacon, actor.
--> 1970, Beck Hanssen, Singer Songwriter.
--> 1973, Kathleen Robinson, actress.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1796, First American Passport issued by the US State Department.
--> 1835, The Liberty Bell cracks (again.)
--> 1889, Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
--> 1896, William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
--> 1897, Harbor Hospital formally opens.
--> 1905, Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center.
--> 1992, Annual Chesapeke turtle derby, (turtle races Baltimore, MD.)

alfred01 · Jul 9, 2011

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.................AAAHHHHHHHGGGGGG What day is it?

OH, July 9th

1536 - French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada (and proclaimed, what a pucking country)

1572 - 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum (Denmark)

1815 - 1st natural gas well in US is discovered

1868 - 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)

1891 - Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University

1893 - Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia (on what a cadaveur?)

1942 - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews

1944 - World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)

1948 - Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleveland (bet you never realized he pitched in the majors)

1955 - First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)

1955 - Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart

1997 - Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear

alfred01 · Jul 10, 2011

July 10th

1652 - England declares war on Netherlands

1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)

1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours

1940 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)

1943 - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

reghakr · Jul 11, 2011

On This Day in History: Monday, Jul 11, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1767, John Quincy Adams, 6th President from (1825 - 1829).
--> 1899, Eb White
--> 1920, Yul Bryner, actor, famous bald person.
--> 1931, Tab Hunter
--> 1934, Giorgio Armani, Fashion Designer.
Events on this day in history:

--> 1804, Burr and Hamilton duel. Hamilton looses.
--> 1864, Confederate forces invade Washington DC. led by General J. Early.
--> 1955, U.S.A.F. Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado.
--> 1962, First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I.)
--> 1985, Nolan Ryan, first major league pitcher, to strike out 4000 batters.

And don't forget...

--> National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.)

alfred01 · Jul 11, 2011

July 11th

1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet

1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)

1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days

1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry (and Nixon starts preparing his denial speech)

1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC

1981 - Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony (and the villagers rejoice)

Mike · Jul 12, 2011

July 12th, 2011:

100 BC Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar (0102 BC by some calanders) born
526: Election of Felix III as Pope
1073: Death of St. John Gaulberto
1109: Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1153: Coronation of Anastasius IV as Pope
1174: King Henry II does penance at Canterbury for Becket's murder
1174: William the Lion made prisoner at Alnwick
1191: The armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard ('TheLionhearted'), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre
1221: Pelagius leads the 5th Crusade up the Nile
1290: Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1328: Marriage of David II, King of Scotland, to Joanna, sister of Edward III of England
1346: Landing of the English army at St. Vaast la Hogue, Cotentin, Normandy
1450: Death of Jack Cade
1536: Death of Desiderius Erasmus
1543: England's King Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife), She outlived him
1627: English troops under Buckingham land on the Isle of Rhe
1645: Death of Michael I, Czar of Russia
1690: Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James the Second at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1730: Josiah Wedgewood , English potter, industrialist and writer. born
1757: Composer Christian Danner born
1789: Fire sweeps through Paris following 2 days of rioting
1794: Russian zoologist Heinrich Christian Pander born
1812: US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1817: American writer Henry David Thoreau born
1843: Mormon church founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine revelation had been given him sanctioning polygamy among his newly-organized religious followers
1849: Canada, physician/author William Osler. He studdied the circulatory system. born
1854: George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, was born. It was this man who in 1919 gave the 3-and-a-half Million dollars that made it possible to establish the Eastman School of Music. The Eastman School would become a hotbed of talented composers later in the century.
1862: Congress authorized a new award, the U.S. Medal of Honor, often called the Congressional Medal of Honor
1878: Turkey cedes Cyprus to Britain
1884: Amedeo Modigiani, Italian painter, sculptor, and draftsman. born
1884: Actor Joseph Crehan, Baltimore MD,(Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight) born
1895: Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian operatic soprano famous for her Wagnerian roles. born
1895: Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers born
1895: R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome born
1898: Peter Deyneka, missions pioneer. He founded the Slavic Gospel Association in 1934. This mission undertakes evangelistic work in Europe and South America. born
1908: Comedian Milton Berle "Uncle Miltie" born
1917: Artist Andrew Wyeth born
1920: The Panama canal, was officially opened by President Woodrow Wilson. The project began in 1881. The first ship actually sailed through on January 7, 1914
1922: Hindemith's "Kammermusic for Winds" was premiered in Cologne. This witty piece, an early composition with traces of jazz here and there, is still popular with wind ensembles today
1933: A new U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. This was the first national minimum wage law passed by the U. S. Congress
1934: Pianist Van Cliburn born
1934: US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1937: Comedian Bill Cosby born
1943: Singer-musician Christine McVie born
1944: Actress Denise Nicholas born
1944: The RAF becomes the first air force to use jet aircraft in operational service
1948: Fitness guru Richard Simmons born
1948: Actor Jay Thomas born
1948: Singer Walter Egan born
1949: Rock singer-musician John Wetton (Asia; King Crimson) born
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns from the army to begin his presidential campaign
1956: Gospel singer Sandi Patti born
1957: Actress Mel Harris born
1962: Rock guitarist Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum) born
1965: Rock singer Robin Wilson (Gin Blossoms) born
1969: Actress Lisa Nicole Carson born
1971: Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi born
1972: George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach
1973: Rapper Magoo born
1974: John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist
1976: Singer Tracie Spencer born
1976: Hans Werner Henze got a Marxist opera staged in London. It was called "We Come to the River" and was a revolution manifesto
1977: President Carter defended Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not fair."
1978: Actor Topher Grace ("That 70's Show") born
1981: For the first time a woman in the United States was ordered to pay alimony to her husband
1982: The last of the distinctive looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The company had produced those cabs since 1922
1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he'd chosen US Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket
1985: Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Reagan's large intestine, prompting surgery the following day
1986: Protestants paraded through Northern Ireland to observe the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, and to protest the Anglo-Irish accord giving Ireland a role in running the British-ruled province
1987: For the first time in 20 years, a delegation of Soviet diplomats arrived in Israel for what was described as a "technical mission" to document Soviet citizens and make an inventory of Soviet property
1988: Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Sen. Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate
1989: President Bush continued his visit to Hungary, where he held talks with officials and made a speech at Karl Marx University in Budapest
1989: A farmer in eastern France went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people before being captured
1990: Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership. Saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic
1991: Actor Erik Per Sullivan ("Malcolm in the Middle") born
1991: A Japanese professor who had translated Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel's Italian translator was attacked in Milan
1992: In an emotional farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing executive director of the NAACP, urged the group's convention in Nashville, Tennessee, to show the world that it remained vital
1993: 196 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck northern Japan
1993: In Somalia, a mob avenging a deadly United Nations attack on the compound of Mohamed Farrah Aidid killed an Associated Press photographer and three Reuters employees
1994: Germany's highest court ruled the country's combat troops could be sent on U.N. missions abroad with parliamentary approval
1994: President Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first American president to do so since Harry Truman
1994: Confirmation hearings began for Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer
1994: The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating the American League 8-to-7
1995: President Clinton spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting the First Amendment already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion
1996: The House voted overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law as a legal union of one man and one woman -- no matter what states might say
1996: Hurricane "Bertha" slapped North Carolina's Cape Fear, then moved on to batter a string of coastal towns
1997: In Copenhagen, the last stop of an eight-day European tour, President Clinton said political divisions in Europe were closing
1997: In Spain, kidnapped Basque politician Miguel Angel Blanco was found mortally wounded shortly after a deadline set by his militant Basque captors
1998: In Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, three young brothers who had been asleep in their beds burned to death in a sectarian attack
1998: France beat Brazil, 3-to-0, for its first World Cup soccer championship
1999: President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held their first face-to-face budget meeting of the year; the talk was described afterward as positive
2000: In Philadelphia, a WPVI TV news helicopter videotaped about a dozen police officers kicking and punching Thomas Jones, a black carjacking suspect. (Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison)
2000: New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock was impeached by the Legislature, the first such action against an official in the state since 1790. (He was later acquitted in a state Senate trial.)
2005: Padraig Harrington withdraws from British Open
2005: Former Sudanese rebel leader John Garang sworn in as vice president of Sudan
2005: Abreu smashes records, wins Home Run Derby
2005: PRIDE Critical Countdown results
2005: Tropical Storm Emily forms in mid Atlantic, threatens North and Central America
2005: False security alarm in Bradford, England
2005: Four explosions at Spanish power station
2005: Intel's offices across the EU raided
2005: London bombing: Police search houses in Leeds
2005: Building in Barcelona damaged by explosion
2005: Suicide attack hits mall in Netanya, Israel
2005: Cuba declines American help for damage caused by Hurricane Dennis
2005: Police make significant progress in London bombings investigation
2005: UK Defence Minister alludes to possible Iraq troop reduction
2005: Arrest over London bombing
2005: White House refuses to comment on Karl Rove as source of leak
2005: Ft. Wayne, Indiana burn center treats Afghan child
2005: TD Financial to acquire Hudson United Bancorp
2005: Fire in Hospital in Costa Rica kills 18 persons
2005: Palestinian radio station broadcasts praise for London terror attacks
2005: Rebel leader says he will run for president in Haiti
2006: Man arrested for mutilating NZ body
2006: Microsoft launches classified listings site
2006: UK to get new nuclear power stations
2006: Iraqi group claim deaths of U.S. soldiers avenge rape, murder of Iraqi girl
2006: Blair ally Lord Levy arrested
2006: Zidane apologises for headbutt
2006: China and Russia counter resolution against North Korea
2006: Psilocybin induces mystical and spiritual experiences: study
2006: EU fines Microsoft ?280.5 million
2006: Canadian media company Bell Globemedia to acquire rival CHUM
2006: Hezbollah attack Israel; Israeli forces cross over into southern Lebanon
2006: Dozens arrested in leadup to St Petersburg G8 Summit
2006: Sex scandal rocks Scottish politics
2007: NASA says water found on exoplanet
2007: Well-preserved baby mammoth found in Siberia
2007: IAEA: North Korea to begin shutting down nuclear reactor next week
2007: Plane from Los Angeles to London diverted
2007: Australian radio personality Stan Zemanek dies aged 60
2007: US stocks surge, Dow Jones index reaches record
2007: FIFA U20 World Cup: Austria, Czech Republic, Spain and US make it to quarters
2007: Illinois man named person of interest in wife's disappearance
2007: Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana
2007: Tour de France: Filippo Pozzato wins stage 5
2007: Tour de France: Thor Hushovd wins stage 4
2007: AFC Asian Cup: Lights fail as Korea draw with Saudi Arabia, Iran defeat Uzbekistan
2007: European football: Benayoun, Babel move to Liverpool
2008: United Kingdom will compensate Iraqi victims of abuse
2008: Chaotic first day for iPhone 3G
2008: IndyMac Bank placed into conservatorship by US Government
2008: Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary and "Fox News Sunday" anchor, dies at age 53
2008: American surgeon Michael E. DeBakey dies at age 99
2008: Six die as bus carrying Polish tourists crashes in Serbia
2008: Van Halen singer impersonated in Canadian medical scare
2009: Former president Rafsanjani to lead Friday Iran prayers
2009: Firefighter killed while tackling pub blaze in Edinburgh, Scotland
2009: Daisy Dick wins Barbury International Horse Trials
2010: Spain defeat the Netherlands 1-0 in extra time to win FIFA World Cup
2010: Bomb blasts in Uganda kill dozens
2010: Rosetta spacecraft passes Lutetia asteroid
2010: Reutimann 'earns' second career NASCAR Sprint Cup race win
2010: Australian rules football: Gippsland Football League round 13 - Traralgon defeat Sale

reghakr · Jul 13, 2011

On This Day in History: Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1940, Patrick Stewart, actor.
--> 1942, Harrison Ford, actor.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1568, The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.
--> 1865, Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go West."
--> 1898, San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.

--> 1985, Live Aid raises money for Africa's starving people.

And don't forget...

--> The start of the Bon Festival in Japan.

alfred01 · Jul 13, 2011

July 13th

1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace

1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die

1942 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis

1942 - SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland

1966 - Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago

1967 - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die

1976 - Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)

1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

alfred01 · Jul 14, 2011

July 14th

1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty

1865 - 1st ascent of Matterhorn

1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness

1953 - 1st Natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver

1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England

1967 - The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a US tour

1973 - Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers

1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

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reghakr · Jul 15, 2011

On This Day in History: Friday, Jul 15, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1606, Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
--> 1946, Linda Ronstadt, singer.
--> 1960, Kim Alexis, super model.
--> 1961, Lolita Davidovich, actress.
--> 1961, Forrest Whitaker, actor.
--> 1973, Brian-Austin Green, actor.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1867, San Francisco's Merchant's Exchange opens.
--> 1869, Margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.
--> 1965, Law is passed, requiring health warnings on cigarette packages.

And don't forget...

--> National Ice Cream Day.
--> Saint Swithin's Day.

reghakr · Jul 18, 2011

On This Day in History: Monday, Jul 18, 2011

Famous people born on this day:
--> 1811, William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote "Vanity Fair"
--> 1848, William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer.
--> 1906, Clifford Odets
--> 1906, S. I. Hayakawa, sleeper.
--> 1913, Red Skelton, clown to the world.
--> 1916, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie's better half.
--> 1921, John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit.

Events on this day in history:
--> 64, The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle.)
--> 1872, Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
--> 1938, Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??.)
--> 1968, Intel Corporation is incorporated.
--> 1990, A world record is set for catching a grape in mouth, 319' 8".

And don't forget...
--> National Day, celebrated in Spain.

reghakr · Jul 20, 2011

On This Day in History: Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1938, Diana Rigg
--> 1938, Natalie Wood, actress.
--> 1947, Carlos Santana, singer, song writer.
Events on this day in history:

--> 1810, Columbia gains its independence.
--> 1859, Admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents.)
--> 1872, Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born.
--> 1878, First telephone introduced in Hawaii.
--> 1969, Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT. (Armstrong, Aldrin walk while Collins orbits in Apollo 11 above.)
--> 1970, First baby born on Alcatraz Island.
--> 1976, First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2.)
--> 1992, Madonna poses nude in Playboy. (Big deal).
And don't forget...

--> Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia.

reghakr · Jul 22, 2011

On This Day in History: Friday, Jul 22, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1844, Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented "spoonerisms."
--> 1849, Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
--> 1890, Rose Kennedy, mother of Jack, Robert, and Ted.
--> 1898, Alexander Calder
--> 1898, Steven Vincent Bennet
--> 1932, Oscar De La Renta
--> 1947, Danny Glover, actor.
--> 1955, Willem Dafoe, actor.
--> 1965, David Spade, actor.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1933, Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
--> 1979, First Sony Walkman goes on sale.

alfred01 · Jul 24, 2011

July 24th

1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.

1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT

1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die

1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs (it would become known as the Scopes Monkey Trial)

1938 - Instant coffee invented (yuk)

1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania

1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"

1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes (a few alterations first)

1985 - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

alfred01 · Jul 25, 2011

July 25th

1689 - France declares war on England

1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive

1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). (thanks as*hole)

1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif

1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria

1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II

1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion showLink Removed due to 404 Error (and the villager's rejoiced)

1962 - House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex

1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks

1966 - Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"

1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.

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reghakr · Jul 26, 2011

On This Day in History: Monday, Jul 25, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1907, Jack Gilford
--> 1955, IMAN, model.
--> 1967, Matt LeBlanc, actor "FRIENDS".
--> 1978, Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1903, Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
--> 1909, First airplane flight across the English Channel.
--> 1946, First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.
--> 1983, The lowest temperature ever recorded is noted, -129 degrees in Antarctica.

alfred01 · Jul 26, 2011

July 26th

1848 - 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)

1945 - US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb

1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM

1946 - President Truman orders desegregation of all US forces

1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy

1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater

1993 - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km

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reghakr · Jul 28, 2011

On This Day in History: Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1922, Norman Lear, sitcom creator.
--> 1931, Jerry Van Dyke, actor.
--> 1967, Sasha Mitchell, actor.

Events on this day in history:

--> 1586, Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England fromVirginia.
--> 1866, Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.)
--> 1940, Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
--> 1983, Last episode of "TAXI" airs.

reghakr · Jul 29, 2011

On This Day in History: Friday, Jul 29, 2011

Famous people born on this day:

--> 1869, Booth Tarkington, novelist.
--> 1871, Rasputin, the mad Russian monk.
--> 1905, Clara Bow
--> 1905, Thelma Todd
--> 1907, Melvin Belli, San Francisco's "King of Torts."

Events on this day in history:

--> 1835, First sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
--> 1858, First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
--> 1914, First transcontinental phone link made. It's between NYC and San Francisco.
--> 1921, First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco (taking 33 hours and 21 minutes to complete).
--> 1926, Don Juan opens with the most kisses, 127 in a single movie.
--> 1958, Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
--> 1981, The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
--> 1996, Carl Lewis wins his 9th Gold Medal in the 1996 Olympics.
And don't forget...

The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.

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