Today in History

[brokenandtwisted]

Just a thread to post little things in reference to events that have occurred on this day...

May 7, 1915 (92 years ago)

The ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by German submarine U-20 off the coast of Ireland. The ship goes under in just 18 minutes. In their panic, the crew only manages to launch 6 of the 48 lifeboats. As a result 1,201 are killed. Contrary to published reports of the time, the passenger ship was smuggling 3,863 boxes of ammunition and 323 bundles of guncotton into Britain.

[Hippiepoet]

Heh, I just found this thread. I'll try and post some things to keep it alive!:D

On this day, March 26.....
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1990 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1988 Janet B. Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1986 Geffen records signs Guns and Roses
1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the U.S. since 1945
1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win
1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal
1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1910 U.S. forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid

[Hippiepoet]

1997-39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1995-67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win
1983-Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1980-Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
1977-583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1976-Washington D.C. underground Metro opens
1973-Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession
1973-45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1964-Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964-The Most Powerful Earthquake in the Western Hemisphere during th 20th Century, Struck Anchorage, Alaska
1957-29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1945-Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed
1944-1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944-2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944-40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944-Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1942-Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York City)
1914-1st successful blood transfusion
1884-1st long-distance telephone call, Boston - New York
1794-U.S. Navy forms
1790-The shoelace invented
1513-Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

[Hippiepoet]

1992-Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
1990-President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
1981-Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec
1980-Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66
1979-Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths)
1977-49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win
1972-Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1970-1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1969-Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1964-9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1941-Virginia Woolf, novelist, drowned herself in a river near her home at 59
1939-Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1924-WGN-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions
1922-1st microfilm device introduced
1910-1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1891-1st world weightlifting championship held
1885-U.S. Salvation Army officially organized
1881-Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum and James A Bailey
1866-1st ambulance goes into service
1799-New York State abolished slavery
1797-Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1794-Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)

[swivel]

1990-President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal

1980-Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66

What the?

[Hippiepoet]

What the?

Ummm it was awarded posthumously, Swiv. (Ya know, after the dude died);) I know, I know, it would of been nice to have awarded him such a medal, whilst still living. :p

(At least I know someone is actually reading these things.)....Thanks Swiv.:D

[So Jaded]

I was gonna say....'betcha he had a hard time making it to the ceremony'. :p

[swivel]

I was gonna say....'betcha he had a hard time making it to the ceremony'. :p

My guess is he was late at the time.

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1993-65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win
1989-1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989-61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
1988-U.S. Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1987-Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1985-Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1982-54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win
1974-Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1973-U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution
1971-1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971-Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1962-Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1951-23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win
1951-Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1943-Meat rationed in U.S. (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's )
1940-Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1935-French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1932-Jack Benny debuts on radio
1912-Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1886-Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1852-Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1848-Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1795-Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1638-1st permanent white settlement in Delaware
1461-Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)

[Hippiepoet]

1992-64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win
1987-59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win
1987-Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1982-3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1981-President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1972-North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961-NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1955-27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win
1948-Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi
1945-289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1944-781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1942-SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1932-Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1911-Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1909-Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens
1889-John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York
1870-15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1867-U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
1858-Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1856-Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1842-Ether was used as an anesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long
1778-Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath

[Hippiepoet]

1997-Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1996-Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1995-Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1995-Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1993-Brandon Lee, U.S. actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1991-Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves
1990-Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
1988-Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved
1986-167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1984-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1982-Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1981-53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win
1980-Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1971-William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1967-1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1966-25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City
1966-U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1965-U.S. ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1963-Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
1953-Department of Health, Education and Welfare established
1944-Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1933-German Republic gives power to Hitler
1933-1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)
1931-Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1918-1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect
1917-U.S. purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands
1896-Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also know as the zipper
1889-300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
1880-1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
1870-1st black to vote in U.S. (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy New Jersey)
1850-U.S. population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1651-Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru

[Hippiepoet]

1997-Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1992-NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1991-Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991-Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1991-Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1990-It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1986-U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1984-8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1984-Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44 ***
1983-Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1982-U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1980-Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1976-Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1973-Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1970-President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1964-10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1960-Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1954-Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954-U.S. Air Force Academy forms
1952-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1945-U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1941-Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes
1938-Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
1934-Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers ***
1931-Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931-Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1929-Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1916-Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed by firing squad***
1889-1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1876-1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1873-British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1853-Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1826-Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1793-Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
1792-Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1778-Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1748-Ruins of Pompeii found
1578-William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
374-Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

1995-Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1992-John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos***
1992-Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1989-Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
1988-Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1986-4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece***
1986-NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1985-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982-Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands
1980-Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1979-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo
1978-TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978-Velcro was 1st put on the market
1977-Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977-Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1974-46th Academy Awards - "Sting," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win
1973-CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973-Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal after performing a "sexual indignity" to her decapitated head***
1972-44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win
1970-2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
1968-Beatles form Python Music Ltd.
1966-Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1964-U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1963-Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963-U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1958-Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens
1958-National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958-Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)
1954-Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1945-1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa
1935-Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935-Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1932-Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son ***
1931-Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1930-1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda 1917
1917-Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
1917-President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1910-Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37***
1902-1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1877-1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1872-George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1870-Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. pres
1866-President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
1827-Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1819-1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1792-Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
1792-U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime
1513-Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2003-Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly - died in Iraq in an accident, at 45
2000-Terence McKenna, novel writer/ethnobotanist, philosopher, dies at 43 of brain cancer

1991-Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)

1987 Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds (over 62 million dollars)
1987-Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1986-U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1981-Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1980-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979-Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
1978-50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win
1977-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1976-Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1975-Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
1975-James Rupers kills his family to inherit***
1974-148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1970-Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try :D

1966-Luna 10 orbits Moon
1965-1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1962-Benny "Kid" Paret, U.S. welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1960-Earthquake at Havre, Belgium

1955-Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)
1955-Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1954-Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)

1949-North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada
1948-1st U.S. figure skating championships held
1948-Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1936-Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed***
1936-Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1936-Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1935-Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1933-1st airplane flight over Mt. Everest

1926-2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard

1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed

1882-Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1882-Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph Mo by Robert Ford***
1868-An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1860-Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
1856-Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1848-Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

1790-Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created
1776- George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

33-Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys and Waddington) ***


***Crime related events.

[Hippiepoet]

1997-DMSP Titan 2 launched
1997-STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
1994-Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706

1989-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1988-Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds vs. Cards)
1986-Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1983-6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1981-Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)

1979-Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51***
1974-Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975-Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes***
1975-USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1972-1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1971-Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)

1969-Denton Cooley implanted 1st temporary artificial heart
1968-Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968-Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in Memphis at 39
1966-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963-Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1960-32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win

1958-1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1955-British government signs military treaty with Iraq

1949-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)
1948-84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1947-Largest group of sunspots on record
1945-Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1945-U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany

1932-Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh

1916-U.S. Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I

1905-Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1900-Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII***

1896-Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1887-Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)
1870-Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1850-City of Los Angeles incorporated
1841-William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68
1828-Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1818-Congress decided U.S. flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars

1581-Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world

1460-University of Basel in Swizterland forms

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2002-Layne Staley, Grunge rocker, Alice in Chains, dies from a drug-overdose at 34

1997-Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1993-Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad ***
1991-Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1991-Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1991-U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq

1986-Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1984-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)

1977-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974-Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)
1973-Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1971-Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971-Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1971-U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life ***

1967-76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1965-37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win
1965-Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963-Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1962-NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962-St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands

1951-Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death ***

1943-Poon Lim, Chinese Sailor, found after being adrift 133 days, alone in the South Pacific

1936-Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die

1927-Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style
1925-Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer
1923-Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production
1919-Polish Army executes 35 young Jews ***
1902-Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25***

1894-11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Pennsylvania***
1806-Isaac Quintard patents apple cider

1794-Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 ***
1792-George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1768-1st U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City)
1753-British Museum forms and opens in 1759
1722-Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island

1621-Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1614-Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe

1531-Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop ***:eek:

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2003-David Bloom, TV journalist, died in Iraq of non-war-related causes, dies at 39

1994-Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated ***
1994-Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated ***
1994-Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1994-Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself ***
1994-Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1992-Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo

1988-Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1986-Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1985-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984-11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1984-1st time 11 people in space
1983-Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered ***
1980-Post It Notes, introduced :D

1974-200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1973-Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn

1968-Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death ***

1958-Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
1957-New York City ends trolley car service
1955-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1954-TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons
1954-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1593-Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged***
1593-John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged ***

1941-Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)

1938-Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1936-Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1934-418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1930-Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar:p

1924-4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight

1917-U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1912-Electric starter 1st appeared in cars

1909-1st credit union forms in US
1909-North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
1906 -1st animated cartoon copyrighted

1896-1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1889-George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1869-1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1868-Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife
1862-Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee

1789-1st U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City
1722-Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards

1652-Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established

1327-Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura :heart:
1348-Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi***
1994-Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
1991-Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1990-John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal ***
1990-Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma

1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1988-Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1980-Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

1979-Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1978-Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City
1972-"Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party***
1970-42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win

1969-Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

1959-Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1953-1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

1940-Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp

1932-Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd ***
1933-University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic

1927-Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City
1923-1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney

1891-Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1827-English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches

1798-Mississippi Territory organized
1788-1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta

1348-Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV

30-Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies***

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases [guns and bombs..still okay];)
1993-STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1991-Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
1990-Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die

1988-Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute:eek:

1979-204th and final episode of "All in the Family"
1975-47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
1974-Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record

1969-1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats New York Mets 10-9
1968-40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1968-Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King assassination
1966-OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1964-Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1963-35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win
1961-British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236

1947-Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed

1893-The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1879-Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1869-American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City)
1862-John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser [oh to the joy of our Ozone layer!];)
1838-Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City)

1789-House of Representives 1st meeting
1766-1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain:)

1498-Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27***

217-Caracalla, [Marcus Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29***

[Hippiepoet]

1997-Michael Dorris, writer, Broken Cord, commits suicide at 52
1996-Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7
1993-Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993-Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1992-Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1991-Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands

1986-Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986-Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1984-Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1983-55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win

1970-Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days

1968-President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1965-40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000
1963-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961-Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1960-1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)

1956-Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1951-President Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur

1947-Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1945-SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen

1900-U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1881-River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
1838-Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40

1034-Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife***

***Crime Related Events

[impqueen]

I was trying to fix posts and had to delete this one to make the new one show up, so here's the April 10 post. Sorry, Hippie! I'll repost your Arpil 11 after this one to keep it sequential for you.

April 10 Today in History, by Hippie :) Shit fire, I just noticed that I forgot about April 9th. WTF? :eek:


1992-25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka ***
1993-Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 ***
1991-Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991-Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd and 42nd St, New York City)
1991-Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)

1989-H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1986-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985-At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1984-Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984-U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1983-Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered ***
1981-Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded

1979-Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian
1974-Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet
1974-Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
1973-BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1972-7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972-U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons

1968-40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win
1968-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967-39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win
1963-Thresher, U.S. atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962-Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1960-Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1955-Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1953-"House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City)

1947-Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1945-Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany
1945-U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa

1938-New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1930-Synthetic rubber 1st produced

1917-Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1916-1st professional golf tournament held
1913-President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1912-RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage

1878-California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service
1877-Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina
1872-Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1866-American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1865-At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1849-Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100
1845-More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1841-New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1825-1st hotel in Hawaii opens

1790-Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1790-U.S. Patent system forms

1516-1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice

837-Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth

***Crime Related Events

Source: Brainyhistory.com


__________________
"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” ~J. D. Salinger

[impqueen]

Here's the repost of Hippie's April 11 Today In History column :)

April 11~Today in History 1997-Michael Dorris, writer, Broken Cord, commits suicide at 52
1996-Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7
1993-Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered ***
1993-Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1992-Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1991-Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands

1986-Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986-Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1984-Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1983-55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win

1970-Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days

1968-President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1965-40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000
1963-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961-Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1960-1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)

1956-Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites***
1951-President Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur

1947-Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1945-SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen***

1900-U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1881-River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
1838-Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 ***

1034-Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife***

***Crime Related Events
__________________
"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” ~J. D. Salinger

[Hippiepoet]

1992-Earthquake rocks Germany
1992-Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of U.N. ***
1991-U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases
1990-1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss

1988-Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse
1988-Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California
1985-16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1985-U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1983-Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor
1982-3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot***
1981-Maiden voyage of space shuttle Columbia
1980-William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup***

1979-Soyuz 33 returns to Earth

1966-1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1966-Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed ***
1963-Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators ***
1961-Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1

1945-Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands
1945-Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres

1938-1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1934-Highest wind gust directly measured at Earth's surface, Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph

1917-Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St. New York City (Demolished 1982)
1911-1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1908-Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
1905-French Dufaux brothers test helicopter

1896-Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
1892-George C. Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1877-Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1872-Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)***
1864-Thomas Green, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 50
1861-Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1858-1st US billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
1844-Texas became a US territory
1811-1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA

1654-England, Ireland and Scotland united
1606-England adopts Union Jack as its flag

1204- 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople

***Crime Related Events
Sources: Brainyhistory.com and HistoryOrb.com

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64 ***
1994-President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death***
1992-Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas
1992-Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood

1985-Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1984-Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1984-11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1983-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault ***
1980-U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow

1979-Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1976-Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1970-Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon

1965-1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits
1964-36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win
1964-New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1963-Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1962-Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1961-U.N. General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1960-Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit

1959-USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1959-Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1957-Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted
1955-20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
1954-Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist

1948-78 Jews, including doctors and nurses, were killed in ambush, Mount Scopus***
1946-Eddie Klep, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama
1945-U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1944-South Carolina rejects black suffrage
1943-Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1942-Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1940-Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft

1933-1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale
1934-4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments
1934-U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act

1920-1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1928-1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl)

1919-British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
1918-Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital

1904-Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1902-J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming

1842-Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1860-1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
1863-Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
1868-Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1869-Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870-Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City
1873-Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) ***
1883-Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism ***

1796-1st elephant arrives in U.S. from India
1794-Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Fr playwright, commits suicide at 53

1668-John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate

1517-Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged

837-Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years

***Crime Related Events

Source: Wiki and Brainyhistory.com

[So Jaded]

1992-Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas

That shit was GROSS!!!
Brings back an aftertaste just thinking about it.

[Hippiepoet]

1992-Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas

That shit was GROSS!!!
Brings back an aftertaste just thinking about it.

Oh god, I know! I too remember that shit. I liked to lol when I fucking saw that! I love soda-pop, but yeah, that's one I couldn't tolerate.:p

[Hippiepoet]

1994-U.S. F-15 accidentally shoots 2 U.S. helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994-Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered ***
1993-Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death ***

1989-1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1986-Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1981-1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1980-1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980-52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman and Sally Field win

1978-Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1971-Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

1969-41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson and K Hepburn/Striesand win
1969-Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1967-In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1965-Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged ***
1965-Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged***
1965-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961-1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1960-1st underwater launching of Polaris missile

1958-Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1956-Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1955-Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform


1948-Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home ***
1948-A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1945-American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace
1944-1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944-Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1941-1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1940-RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia

1939-John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1935-Sandstorm ravages U.S. midwest (Dust Bowl)

1923-Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1920-Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama and Mississippi

1914-Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern

1903-Dr. Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid in New York City
1902-Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium

1894-1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1865-President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth ***
1863-William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1860-1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St. Joseph, Missouri
1853-Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1828-1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published

1614-Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe

1099-Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death ***


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2002-Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 12

1994-WMMS-FM's Jeff and Flash, and entire station staff, are fired
1992-Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion***
1991-Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898

1989-95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1988-Meteorite exploded above Indonesia
1982-5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed ***
1982-Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1981-Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1978-43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy

1962-Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962-U.S. national debt above $300,000,000,000
1964-Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)

1955-Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois
1955-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952-1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1945-Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1941-1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Connecticut
1922-Banting, MacLeod and Best discover insulin

1912-Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1910-Taft is 1st President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game

1892-General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York:idea:
1878-Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1877-1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts
1865-Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am dies, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth ***
1850-City of San Francisco incorporated
1817-1st American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut
1800-James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole

1784-1st balloon flight in Ireland
1738-Bottle opener invented

1250-Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue


***Crime Related Events

Source: Brainyhistory and Wiki

[Hippiepoet]

1995-Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide

1988-Abu Jihad, [Khalil al-Wazzir], PLO-leader, murdered ***
1988-Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli
commandos***
1981-Columbia space shuttle returns
1980-Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974-200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario California
1972-2 giants pandas arrive in U.S., from China
1972-Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1970-70 die in a snow crush (France)

1964-9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery" ***
1962-Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1959-New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1957-U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
1956-1st solar powered radios go on sale
1955-Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded***
1951-British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75

1947-Massive explosion and fire kills 522 in Texas City, Texas
1947-Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated in New York City
1949-Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 ***
1940-1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)

1929-New York Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
1926-Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" and "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1924-1st radio-transmission of wireless: Matthaus Passion
1922-Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row

1912-Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
1908-Natural Bridges National Monument forms near Lake Powell, Utah
1900-U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps

1865-Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1862-U.S. Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)
1854-San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854-Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die

1724-1st Easter observed
1760-Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward ***

1529-Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake ***



***Crime Related Events
Source: Wiki and Brainyhistory

[Hippiepoet]

1997-John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker
1993-Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights **
1993-STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1991-Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
1990-Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die

1986-IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
1984-Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead ***
1983-Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
1982-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1978-63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
1974-Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
1970-Apollo 13 returns back safely to Earth

1969-Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy***
1967-Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1964-Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1964-Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world
1961-33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win
1961-1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1960-Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash

1945-Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed ***
1945-Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54

1937-Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Petunia Pig, debut

1912-1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")

1907-Ellis Island, New York - 11,745 immigrants arrive

1875-"Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
1865-Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination***
1817-1st U.S. school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)

1758-Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems
1704-1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell

1524-Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1521-Martin Luther is excommunicated from Roman Catholic Church

1492-Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies
1421-Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Ken Oosterbroek, The Star's photographer, is among several people killed during a firefight between hostel dwellers and National Peacekeeping Force troops in Tokoza***
1994-Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later at the age of 81
1990-Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home [PERVERTS READ THIS!]:mad:***

1987-An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air (hmmmm found another source that said event happened on the 19th not the 18th)
1986-Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1984-Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1983-Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon***

1968-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968-London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona
1966-Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1963-Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1963-Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

1955-1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1950-1st transatlantic jet passenger trip

1945-Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
1942-James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities

1934-1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas)

1925-World's fair opens in Chicago
1924-1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster)

1919-Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1907-Fairmont Hotel opens
1906-8.25 earthquake shakes San Francisco California, earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city
1902-Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals***

1861-Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia
1860-Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide
1853-William King, U.S., dies of tuberculosis after 45 days as Vice President
1853-1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1838-Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

1775-Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "British are coming!" Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington

1676-Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians ***

***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2000-Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131

1995-Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 and injures 500***
1994-Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender ***
1994-Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
1993-Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1993-David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
1993-George Mickelson, Gov of, South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash
1991-Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1990-Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

1989-Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1984-Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine
1982-Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1982-Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery ***
1982-Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut

1972-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971-Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) ***

1966-Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
1962-NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1960-Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs

1951-Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1948-ABC-TV network begins
1947-AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947-French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522

1932-President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

1919-Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall
1910-Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1904-Much of Toronto destroyed by fire

1892-Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)

1775-Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1770- Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1770-Capt James Cook 1st sees Australia


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[Hippiepoet]

1999-Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves ***
1995-Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1994-Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5***
1994-Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994-Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1993-Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1991-Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44
1990-Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income ***

1988-U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians***
1987-Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead ***
1987-U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R.***
1986-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985-Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)

1978-Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1977-Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1973-Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1972-Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1971-U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

1968-South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1967-French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia believed to be involved with Che Guevara's guerrilla group***
1967-U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1964 -86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1962-New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North

1951 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak atoll
1941-Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49 ***
1940-1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa

1926-1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1920-Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi

1906-Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
1902-Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1888-246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1879-1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus
1853-Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1841-1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1812-George Clinton, 4th U.S. VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office

1769-Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered ***

1632-Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake ***

295-8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet


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Source: Brainyhistory

[Hippiepoet]

1997-Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
1996-Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8)
1995-FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing ***
1994-Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1992-Robert Harris, murderer, executed in San Quentin, California's gas chamber at 39, for the murder of two teenage boys in 1978***
1992-Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill

1989-Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1987-Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed ***
1986-Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)
1986-Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing :rolleyes:
1984-Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1984-Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1982-Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant

1972-John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
1972-Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched

1967-Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to U.S.

1959-Alf Dean using a rod and reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark :eek:
1955-Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die

1948-1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1945-le Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die

1930-Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322

1918-"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1913-Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper

1898-Spanish-American War begins
1878-New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1878-Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1862-Congress establishes U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado

1857-Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1855-1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport Iowa
1836-Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1828-Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary


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[So Jaded]

1986-Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing


That was fuckin' hilarious!! He had that soooooo hyped up on TV and then.....nothing. I think there was an old Coke bottle in there or something. :D

[Hippiepoet]

1986-Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing


That was fuckin' hilarious!! He had that soooooo hyped up on TV and then.....nothing. I think there was an old Coke bottle in there or something. :D

Hahahahah I know!. I remember getting all hyped about the show. I thought they were going to find something really cool by the way Geraldo was talking it up. I was so damn disappointed!. I think that incident let to a bit of Geraldo decline.:p

[Hippiepoet]

2004-Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, killed in action in Afghanistan at 27
2004-Train fire and explosion in Ryongchon, North Korea kills at least 160 and levels several buildings
2000-Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba ***

1994-7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda ***
1994-Borge Ousland reaches North pole
1994-In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1992-Billy Wayne White, executed in Texas at 34 for murdering 65-year-old Martha Spinks in 1976 in a robbery ***
1992-Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
1992-Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1991-Earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama, kills 95
1990-Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months ***

1986-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976-Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1970-1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources

1969-1st human eye transplant performed
1969-Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1964-World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens

1957-All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
1955-Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
1952-1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada

1915-1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I
1915-New York Yankees don pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time

1898-Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1898-U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1889-Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1864-U.S. mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1838-English steamship "Sirius" docks in New York City after Atlantic crossing
1823-R. J. Tyers patents roller skates
1817-Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight

1692-Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as cure for witchcraft ***

1500-Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal

1370-Bastille begins being built in Paris

1145-19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1056-Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye


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[Hippiepoet]

2000-Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143

1994-Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti ***
1993 Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59 ***
1992-McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China

1988-A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988-Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)
1987-28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
1986-Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1985-Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1984-AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
1980-Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die

1977-Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977-Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa ***

1969-Over 1000 mi flooded on Shantung Province China
1969-Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy***
1967-Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1962-Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral

1954-Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1952-Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1950-1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

1949-Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco
1945-Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1940-Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)

1921-Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)

1896-Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City)
1871-Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
1851-Canada issues its 1st postage stamps

1662-Connecticut chartered as an English colony

303-George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded ***

34 Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton ***


***Crime Related Events

[So Jaded]

1985-Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula

That just SUCKED!! I switched to Pepsi after that and never looked back.
I miss the old Coke. :(

[Hippiepoet]

1995-Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray ***
1994-Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed ***
1993-1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 ***
1992-Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures ***
1990-U.S. 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit

1989-10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1982-150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany ***
1981-Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981-IBM-PC computer introduced
1980-U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

1975-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1969-Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead :)
1969-U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1968-Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City***
1963-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961-John F. Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961-Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1960-Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed

1953-Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1929-1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1928-Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1923-Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1909-Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1908-Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m

1898-Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1897-1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1895-Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1894-French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1888-Eastman Kodak forms
1872-Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1867-Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Virginia streetcars
1865-Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1833-Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain
1800-Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation

1704-"Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms

1288-Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder ***

1061-Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2002-"Lisa ""Left Eye"" Lopes", singer, TLC, dies at 30 from an automobile accident in Honduras

1994-14" of snow in Southern California......... (Hey Asp do you remember that????)
1994-Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32***
1994-Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
1994-Mexican businessman and billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped; held for more than three months until released after an undisclosed payment by his family***
1991-Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL New England Patriots for sexual harassment, and the players involved were punished ***
1990-Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

1988-John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem, but released 5 yrs later due to the passage of time
and the spoliation of evidence.***
1988-NASA launches space vehicle S-211
1986-ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 ***
1982-Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981-Dixie, a mouse who lived 6 years, dies :eek:
1980-A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1980-Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran

1976-Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues U.S. flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
1973-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972-Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1971-About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington

1962-U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1962-U.S. resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1961-Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin, explodes on launch pad
1961-Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1960-1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by Triton

1957-1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1954-Bell labs announces 1st solar battery
1954-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmosphere
1952-American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1950-Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA

1946-"Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48

1938-Buddy, a German Shepard becomes1st guide dog for the blind
1937-Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his parachute and emergency chute fails to open

1901- New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)

1896-Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
1859-Ground broken for Suez Canal



1792-Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined......... (Fucking Ouch!)
1719-Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"

1684-Patent granted for thimble


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2005-Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon, ending its 29 year military occupation

1994-Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1994-26.9 degrees C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1993-Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993-STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1991-23 killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes
1990-Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated ***
1990-126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China

1986-Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1983-Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1982-Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche ***
1981-Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen***
1980-Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980-Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy ***
1980-Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'

1978-NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1977-New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1976-Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo
1974-Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1973-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971-Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs

1968-Students seize administration building at Ohio State ***
1968-U.S. underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device
1962-Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1962-U.S. and U.K. launch Ariel; 1st international payload

1959-Cuba invades Panama
1954-Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1952-U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176

1944-1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1942-Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942-Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1941-A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs

1933-Jewish students are barred from school in Germany

1929-1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1920-H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae


1887-Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1865-John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 ***
1841-"Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk

1478-Giuliano de' Medici, Co-ruler of Florence, murdered at 25, he was stabbed 19 times***


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[Pete Bondurant]

2005 - I win at squash against Tradd Duplantis just several hours after I have sex with his fiancée.

[Hippiepoet]

Back on today, kiddies after a busy fucking weekend.

1996-Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia***
1995-Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995-Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palali, Jaffna, Sri Lanka 52 die
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, Africa 30 soccer players die
1991-Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched


1989-Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1988-Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1987-Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua ***
1983-Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead from the "Dirty War"
1983-NASA launches Geos-F

1977-Christopher Boyce convicted for selling U.S. spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union***
1977-Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany ***
1972-Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race ***
1971-Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy

1967-Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title ***
1966-38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win

1958-Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958-Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1944-Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

1945-Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot ***
1945-Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed ***
1942-"WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942-Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast

1937-1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York City)
1937-1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1932-Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1930-1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas

1924-119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1922-WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station

1919-1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1914-181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
1914-W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner
1910-1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)

1855-1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston
1847-George B. Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar

1789-Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Capt William Bligh ***
1770-Capt James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia

1635-Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office ***

585-War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse

***Crime Related Events

[So Jaded]

1989-Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie

Has anyone here read that book?? I've always meant to but never got around to it.

[Hippiepoet]

1989-Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie

Has anyone here read that book?? I've always meant to but never got around to it.

So Jaded, I just love you, thank you for reading these and commenting every now and again.:D

I've not read this book, but definitely want to do so. Just the fact that it has been a banned book, makes me want to read it all the more. :smile:

[So Jaded]

So Jaded, I just love you, thank you for reading these and commenting every now and again.:D

I've not read this book, but definitely want to do so. Just the fact that it has been a banned book, makes me want to read it all the more. :smile:

Awww Hippie I love ya back! :) And I love your threads...gives me something to think about besides baby rapers and killers.

I'm thinking I need to order this book, just to get it over with. I love any book that pisses people off. :D

[Hippiepoet]

1994-Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1992-Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin***
1991-Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
1991-Earthquake in Georgia, U.S.S.R., kills 100
1990-STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990-Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

1986-800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
1985-17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1983-Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1981-Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women) ***

1975-Charles McMahon Jr, U.S. USMC lance corporal, One of the last men killed in Vietnam, The Fall of Siagon, he was 21 yrs old.
1975-Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, One of last U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam, The Fall of Siagon, he was 19 yrs old
1975-Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, One of last soldiers killed in Vietnam, The Fall of Siagon, he was 25 yrs old
1975-William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, One of last U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam, The Fall of Siagon, he was 29 yrs old
1974-President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1972-Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup at age 25
1971-Bill Graham closes down down Fillmore and Fillmore East
1971-Grateful Dead finishes their 5 night stint at the Fillmore East :D
1971-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970-50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia

1965-Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1964-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1957-1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va

1946-28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals ***
1945-U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany

1939-Whitestone Bridge crossing the East River connecting Bronx and Queens opens
1930-North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden, North Holland (biggest in world) officially opens
1930-Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1927-Construction of Spirit of St. Louis is completed

1916-Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin ***
1913-Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1905-2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, Texas
1903-Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank, Alberta, Canada)

1894-Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Jacob Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol***
1852-1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1845-Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1834-Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1813-Rubber is patented

1553-Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England


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[Hippiepoet]

1997-42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1994-Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1993-David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34 from a heart attack brought on by cocaine
1991-In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 and left 9 million homeless
1990-U.S. 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1990-U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians ***

1986-Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1980-Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London

1975-Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
1972-Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38 from an overdose of drugs and alcohol
1970-Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 by swallowing lye, alkali, or another unidentified caustic substance on top of barbiturates. The acidic effect of the poisonous agent was an immediate cause of death which propelled her body through a decorative glass screen.:eek:

1967-Highest tower in the world finished, 1761.36 feet tall TV Tower in USSR
1966-Richard Farina, rocker, dies in a motorcycle accident
1961-1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern)

1955-Element 101, Mendelevium, a synthetic element announced
1952-Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television

1948-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
1947-Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1945-Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45),committed suicide at 56, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.
1945-Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33, by biting into a cyanide capsule
1945-Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1942-1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi

1939-NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair
1933-Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, shot through the heart by Hurtado de Mendoza ***

1904-Ice cream cone makes its debut at the St. Louis World's Fair
1900-John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies when his passenger train collided with a stopped freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi on a foggy and rainy night

1889-George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey opens
1888-Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1885-Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1871-Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die ***
1864-New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1861-President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1808-1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1803-U.S. doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase

1798-Department of Navy forms
1789-George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1772-John Clais patents 1st scale
1763-London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower

1598-1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1562-1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC

1492-Spain announces it will expels all Jews

1349-Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

2003-President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over

1997-Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.
1997-Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1994-Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994-Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
1993-Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) ***
1993-Pierre Beregovoy, PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
1993-Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 ***
1992-Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in a seige at his former high school in Olivehurst, Ca. The attack was said to be in retaliation for a failing grade. Houston was convicted and sentenced to death.***
1992-Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1991-Angola's civil war ends

1989-U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1989-David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered ***
1988-IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 ***
1986-Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986-Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986-Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1985-"Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels ***
1985-U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1984-Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982-1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens

1979-Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1978-1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978-Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1977-Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1971-Amtrak Railroad begins operation

1965-U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1964-1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1963-1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest
1961-1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba ***
1961-Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961-Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird

1957-Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1952-Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952-Mr. Potato Head, introduced
1952-TWA introduces tourist class
1951-Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1950-Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry

1949-Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1948-Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered ***
1947 Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed***
1947-Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1945-900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945-Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1944-Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1943-Food rationing begins in U.S.
1943-Rauter signs unofficial death sentence ***
1942-Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1941-General Mills introduces Cheerios
1940-The 1940 Olympics are cancelled

1939-Batman comics hit street
1936-FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis known for his alliance with the Barker gang ***
1935-Boulder Dam completed
1931-Empire State Building opens in New York City

1929-Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1928-6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1927-1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)

1919-Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1908-World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama

1889-Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1885-Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
1884-Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884-Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1883-"Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883-Amsterdam World's Fair open
1875-238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities ***
1873-1st U.S. postal card issued
1867-Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1863-Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died)
1863-Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars"
1863-Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1863-Edward Dorr Tracy, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29
1846-Ida Laura Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world visiting Brazil, Chile and other countries of South America, Tahiti, China, India, Persia, Asia Minor and Greece, and reaching home in 1848.
1844-Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1841-1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California

1751-1st American cricket match is played
1707-England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain
1704-Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1703-Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered ***
1628-Meiboom in Quincy Mass degenerates into orgy with indian women:oh:

1006-Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus


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[So Jaded]

1970-Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 by swallowing lye, alkali, or another unidentified caustic substance on top of barbiturates. The acidic effect of the poisonous agent was an immediate cause of death which propelled her body through a decorative glass screen.

What? Wow. I never heard of this one. I might just have to research this a bit...morbid curiosity ya know.

1961-Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird

:D

[Hippiepoet]

1970-Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 by swallowing lye, alkali, or another unidentified caustic substance on top of barbiturates. The acidic effect of the poisonous agent was an immediate cause of death which propelled her body through a decorative glass screen.

What? Wow. I never heard of this one. I might just have to research this a bit...morbid curiosity ya know.

1961-Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird

:D


Yes, on Inger Stevens....all the information I had was that she committed suicide at 35. I was curious as to who she was and how she offed herself...etc. I couldn't believe it when I found out how she did it. Horrible way to fucking off yourself for sure!:eek:

[Hippiepoet]

1995-Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb Croatia, killing six***
1994-Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994-Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides ***
1994-Michael Bolton found plagiarized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"***
1993-Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
1990-David Rappaport, 3'11' actor who suffered with Depression shot himself in the chest at a park in the San Fernando Valley, California with a .38 caliber revolver he had bought 15 days earlier

1989-Jackson Pollock's ''No. 8, 1950,'' sold for $11.55 million at Sotheby's
(I just had to see what this painting looked like....and felt I must share)
http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/SNY521989/30.jpg
1985-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
1982-Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1980-Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder***
1980-Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1975-Apple records closes down
1974-Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred ***
1972-Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
1972-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970-1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)

1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
1963-Tomás Vačkář, composer, chose to end his life shortly after graduating from the Prague Conservatory, aged 18
1962-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1960-Caryl Chessman, rapist executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison after 12 years of appeals, he was 39 ***

1956-U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus

1946-Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die ***

1932-Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932-Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth)

1919-1st U.S. air passenger service starts

1902-1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon

1890-Territory of Oklahoma created
1887-Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1885-"Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1878-U.S. stops minting 20 cent coin
1865-President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis

1780-William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris

1536-King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest ***

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[Hippiepoet]

1997-Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1994-U.S. space probe Clementine launched
1991-356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke

1988-4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida***
1988-Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5654/208/400/485846/johnsdiver.jpg
1986-Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986-NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1982-President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

1979-Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain
1976-Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1975-Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
1973-Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished
1971-Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days***

1967-Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University***
1965-1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1963-Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1962-Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

1956-A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1952-1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1949-1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1945-Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg ***
1945-German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1943-Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed ***
1942-Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands***
1942-Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star

1937-Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1933-1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office
1926-U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1923-1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed
1922-Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922-Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1921-West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax

1919-America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)
1916-Padraic Pearse, Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad at 36***

1901-Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida

1863-Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, U.S. Confederate brig-gen, dies at 35
1855-Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1851-Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
1845-1st black lawyer (Macon B. Allen) admitted to bar
1845-Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China
1830-1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1810-Lord Byron swims Hellespont
1802-Washington D.C. incorporates as a city

1765-1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia
1715-Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Bailey's Beads"

1661-Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1654-Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals

1494-Jamaica "discovered" by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago"




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[Hippiepoet]

1991-President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat

1989-U.S. launches Magellan to Venus
1987-Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of heart attack from years of drug abuse at 44
1984-Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling in Minnesota)
1982-Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1981-Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1980-Our very own Dreamin Demon member, McVain was born today!!!!!

1976-Kiss performs their 1st concert
1973-1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1970-4 students, at Kent State University killed and nine others were injured by Ohio National Guard ***
1970-Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)

1967-Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1964-"Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1963-Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1962-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1961-13 Civil Rights Activists called Freedom riders began bus trip in Washington DC through the South
1960-1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland

1957-Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1956-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1954-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1953-Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea)

1949-Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1948-The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death***
1946-5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay ***
1945-German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
1942-Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942-Food 1st rationed in U.S.
1942-German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages ***
1940-21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands ***

1932-Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary ***
1927-1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927-Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
1923-New York state revokes Prohibition law

1919-1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)

1897-Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1896-Grease fire ignites ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1893-Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging aka steer wrestling
1886-Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen ***
1878-Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1866-Woodward's Gardens in San Francisco California opens to public
1846-U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty ***
1805-Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx

1783-Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus :confused:
1780-American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1776-Rhode Island declares independence from England
1715-French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)

1626-Indians sell Manhattan Island to Peter Minuit for $24 in cloth and buttons :eek:


***Crime Related Events

[lisaznola]

In 1989, Previous White House aide Oliver North was convicted of shredding documents and two other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. (The convictions were later overturned on appeal.)

In 1998, The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years in Sacramento, Calif., under a plea agreement that saved him from the death penalty.

In 2006, Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 9/11, (2001) terrorist attacks on the WTC, NYC.

In 2007, in Los Angeles hotel heiress Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Hilton ended up only doing three weeks.

[So Jaded]

1980-Our very own Dreamin Demon member, McVain was born today!!!!!

Happy Squished Out Day McVain!! :p

[Hippiepoet]

2000-Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

1997-Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
1991-William De Acutis, dies at 33 from brain lymphoma

1988-Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop
1987-Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings ***
1987-France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1983-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981-Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike

1979-Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1976-Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24
1972-Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1971-Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City) ***
1971-Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia ***
1970-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site

1968-Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62 while attempting autoerotic asphyxia:eek:
1965-1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1961-Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)

1958-U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1956-Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California
1955-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1952-Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)

1948-1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1947-Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage
1945-Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
1945-Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945-Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1944-Gandhi freed from prison***
1943-Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1942-U.S. begins rationing sugar during WW II

1939-Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
1936-Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1935-Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8"
1930-1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)

1925-John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee***
1922-Construction begins on Yankee Stadium
1920-U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal ***

1908-Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco

1865-1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio) ***
1864-Alexander Hays, U.S. Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
1864-John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43
1864-Leroy A Stafford, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42

1847-American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1842-City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1809-Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw)


***Crime Related Events

[Hippiepoet]

Today is Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico that celebrates the Battle of Puebla, 1862, in which Mexican forces defeated French invaders against overwhelming odds. What began with a demand by the government of France for payment on bonds turned into a war of conquest. The French commander was sure of victory, but 2,000 troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza carried the day instead. The French ultim