On This Day...

[Xavier]

This thread will be for snippets from the "This Day in History" emails that I get... :smile:

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On This Day: Tuesday April 12, 2005
This is the 102nd day of the year, with 263 days remaining in 2005.



Events
1606 - Great Britain adopted the Union Jack as its flag.

1861 - The American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter
in South Carolina.

1877 - The catcher's mask was first used in a baseball game.

1934 - The highest velocity natural wind ever recorded occurred at Mount
Washington, NH -- 231 mph.

1955 - The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was termed "safe, effective and
potent".

1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, became the first man to
fly in space, orbiting the earth once and landing safely.

1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire.

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida,
becoming the first reusable manned spacecraft to travel into space.

1992 - Euro Disneyland opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.



Births
1777 - Henry Clay, US congressman and senator (1806-52).

1903 - Sally Rand (Helen Beck), dancer, actress.

1919 - Ann Miller (Lucy Ann Collier), actress, dancer.

1947 - David Letterman, TV host, comedian.


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[Abigail]

Didnt the titanic sink around this date

[Xavier]

Didnt the titanic sink around this date
The Titanic struck the iceberg at 11.40 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912 and sank 2 hours, 40 minutes later at 2.20 a.m. the next day.

Source: http://www.titanic-online.com/index.php4?page=faq (Question #33)

[Amazing Rando]

This is also the 60th aniversery of President Roosevelt's death. I suppose this is a national holiday for the people who don't like Social Security.

[Xavier]

On This Day: Monday April 18, 2005
This is the 108th day of the year, with 257 days remaining in 2005.

Fact of the Day: Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual foot race. It starts
in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and goes eight cities and towns to the Back
Bay section of Boston, a distance of 26 miles, 385 yards. It was first
held in 1897 and is run on the third Monday in April - the date picked,
basically, to honor the 1775 ride of Paul Revere. In 1972, it became
the first marathon race to officially admit women runners.

Holidays
Feast day of St Laserian, St Galdinus, St Idesbald, St Apollonius, and
Saints Eleutherius and Anthia.

Zimbabwe: Independence Day.

Events
1521 - Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, defied the Holy
Roman Emperor Charles V by refusing to recant his writings. He had been
excommunicated by the Pope.

1775 - Paul Revere and William Dawes began the famous ride from Charlestown to
Lexington, MA, warning American colonists that the British were coming.

1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.

1906 - A devastating 8.3 earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging
fires. Over 3,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the
disaster.

1921 - Junior Achievement, created to encourage business skills in young
people, was incorporated.

1923 - The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City; the
Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.

1924 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first crossword puzzle book.

1934 - The first launderette (called a 'washeteria') was opened, in Fort
Worth, TX.

1937 - Leon Trotsky calls for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

1942 - For the first time during World War II, the mainland of Japan was
bombed.

1949 - The Republic of Ireland was proclaimed and it withdraws from the
British Commonwealth.

1956 - US actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil
ceremony.

1978 - The US Senate voted to turn the Panama Canal over to the Panama
government on 31 December 1999.

1980 - Southern Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe.

1982 - The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 provided Canada with new laws and
civil rights.

1983 - The US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was almost completely destroyed by a
car-bomb explosion that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. The
terrorist attack was carried out in protest of the US military presence
in Lebanon.

Births
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.

1857 - Clarence Darrow, famous attorney.

1946 - Hayley Mills, actress.

Deaths
1945 - During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America's most popular war
correspondent, was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on a Pacific
island.

[Xavier]

On This Day: Wednesday April 20, 2005
This is the 110th day of the year, with 255 days remaining in 2005.

Fact of the Day: Caddy

In France, military cadets carried golf clubs for royalty. Some
speculated that Mary, Queen of Scots, who grew up in France, brought
the custom to Scotland, where the term evolved into the word
"caddie/caddy." However, the Oxford English Dictionary finds the word
for golf player's attendant in writing in 1857 - and Mary, Queen of
Scots, lived from 1542-1587. Though Mary's existence coincides with the
origins of golf, it does not coincide with the recording of the word
"caddy" in English.

Holidays
Feast day of St Caedwalla, St Agnes of Montepulciano, St Marcellinus of
Embrun, St Marcian of Auxerre, St Hildegund, and St Peter of Verona.

Events
1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived on the coast of Labrador, North
America.

1792 - France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French
Revolutionary wars.

1836 - The Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress.

1871 - Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law,
impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use
military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.

1879 - The first mobile home (horse-drawn) was used in a journey from London
to Cyprus.

1902 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie isolated the radioactive chemical
element, radium.

1916 - Wrigley Field opened in Chicago.

1934 - Shirley Temple made her movie debut in "Stand Up and Cheer".

1940 - RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope.

1945 - Allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and
Stuttgart in World War II.

1969 - Pierre Trudeau became prime minister of Canada.

1971 - The US Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial
desegregation in schools.

1999 - The Columbine High School massacre took place in Littleton, Colorado.
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 classmates
and one teacher and wounded 26 others before taking their own lives.

Births
121 - Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor, philosopher.

1745 - Philippe Pinel, founder of psychiatry.

1850 - Daniel Chester French, American sculptor of Lincoln Memorial.

1889 - Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator (1933-1945).

[Amazing Rando]

You're just doing this to wrack up cheap anti-spam points, aren't you? :noid:

[Xavier]

You're just doing this to wrack up cheap anti-spam points, aren't you? :noid:
Didn't cross my mind at the time... Just wanted people to wander into the History forum.

[Xavier]

On This Day: Friday April 22, 2005
This is the 112th day of the year, with 253 days remaining in 2005.

Holidays
Feast day of St Theodore of Sykeon, St Opportuna, St Agipatus I, pope,
St Leonides of Alexandria, and Saints Epipodius and Alexander.

Brazil: Discovery of Brazil Day.

Oklahoma Day.

Delaware and Nebraska: Arbor Day.

US: Earth Day.

Events
1500 - Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral landed on the coast of Brazil and
claimed it for Portugal.

1509 - Henry VIII ascended the throne of England following the death of his
father, Henry VII.

1662 - King Charles II granted a charter to the Royal Society of London, which
became an important scientific organization.

1838 - The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the British ship Sirius,
arrived at New York; it made the crossing in 18 days.

1864 - Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on US
coins.

1889 - The Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon; thousands of homesteaders staked
claims.

1898 - The first action of the Spanish-American War was the USS Nashville
capturing a Spanish merchant ship off Key West, FL.

1914 - Babe Ruth made his professional pitching debut, playing for the
Baltimore Orioles.

1915 - In World War I, the Germans shock the world by using lethal chlorine
gas in combat against French troops in Belgium.

1954 - The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.

1970 - The first Earth Day was observed.

1976 - Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network
television.

1993 - The US Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington DC to
honor the victims of Nazi extermination.

1994 - Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland became the first person to make the
trip to the North Pole alone.

1999 - NATO warplanes struck directly against Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, destroying his luxurious mansion.

Births
1451 - Queen Isabella I, who sponsored Columbus's journeys.

1707 - Henry Fielding, English novelist.

1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.

1870 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, first
head of the Soviet state.

1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American novelist and critic.

1904 - J. (John) Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, inventor of atomic bomb.

1925 - Aaron Spelling, Emmy Award-winning executive producer.

1937 - Jack Nicholson (Rose), Academy Award-winning actor.