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09-18-2007, 00:22 AM
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Today in History
On this day...
1739 Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 1755 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens 1759 British capture Qu‚bec during the French & Indian War 1769 Boston Gazette reports 1st US piano (a spinet) 1793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1830 A horse beats the 1st US made locomotive (near Baltimore) 1851 NY Times starts publishing, at 2 a copy 1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment 1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board) 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG) 1895 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address 1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor 1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0 1908 Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 1927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations) 1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup 1930 NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 1934 St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 1938 Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 1948 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine 1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit 1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) 1957 "Wagon Train" premiers 1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN 1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 1965 "Get Smart" premiers 1967 Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup 1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) 1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1977 Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup 1977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge 1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1984 Tigers become 4th team to stay in 1st place from opening day 1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs 1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico 1990 A 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC 1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands |
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09-19-2007, 00:42 AM
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On this day...
1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 1796 George Washington's farewell address as president 1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes 1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn 1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California 1862 Battle of Luka, Miss 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 1864 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia 1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic 1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2¬" at age 17 years & 198 days 1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 1914 Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2 1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) 1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 1956 1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne) 1957 1st underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada) 1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland 1966 Mike Burke named Yankees pres 1968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!) 1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers 1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC 1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air 1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR) 1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket 1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert 1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0 1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service 1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day) 1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9) 1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson permieres 1986 Chic White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits Calif Angels, 7-1 1986 Fed health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients 1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance 1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens 1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran) |
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09-20-2007, 01:40 AM
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On this day...
622 Mohammad's Hegira 1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world 1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French 1664 Maryland enacts 1st anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women & black men 1777 Paoli massacre 1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy 1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston 1830 1st National Black convention meets (Phila) 1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue 1854 British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea 1859 Patent granted on the electric range 1860 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends 1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) 1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 1879 US Grant comes to SF for elaborate extended visit 1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president 1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP 1902 Chic White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 1907 Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1 1908 Chic White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0 1911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header 1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2 1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US 1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded 1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional 1951 1st North Pole jet crossing 1951 Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball 1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run 1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution 1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy 1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0 1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC 1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) 1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls 1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26 1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black 1964 Paramount theater (NYC) presented the Beatles & Steve & Eydie 1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 1969 Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Giants, 4-0 1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample 1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm 1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match 1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season 1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks 1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28¬" draw 1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women 1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I 1979 NASA launches HEAO 1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium 1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out 1981 Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal 1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike 1983 3,112 turn out to see the Pirates play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium 1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut 1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players 1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest 1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State 1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race 1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown 1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification 1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message |
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09-21-2007, 18:11 PM
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On this day...
687 Conon ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1348 Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells 1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge 1776 Great fire in NY 1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr‚ plans to West Point 1784 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser) 1792 1st French Republic declared 1823 Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith 1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga 1872 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis 1893 Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car) 1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company 1897 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1906 Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record 1913 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France 1915 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for œ6,600 1921 Gas generator explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany 1922 Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1929 1st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary) 1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents the flashbulb 1931 Britain goes off the gold standard 1934 St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0 1934 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, publishes "The Hobbit" 1938 Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England kills 700 1943 Lynch Triangle (Square) in the Bronx named 1948 "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation 1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed 1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000 m. in record 44 min, 54.6 sec 1953 Allied forces form West Germany 1954 Nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned 1956 Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway 1957 "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premiers on CBS-TV 1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx 1961 Antonio Abertondo swims the English Channel round trip (44 miles) 1964 Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup 1964 Malta gains independence from Britain 1964 Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives the Cards the pennant 1965 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest paracute jump (46,250') 1966 5" of rain falls on NYC 1969 NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos 1970 "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jetss 31-21) 1970 Luna 16 leaves the Moon 1970 Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minn Twins, 6-0 1971 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers) 1971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest 1972 Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines 1973 Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000 1973 NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12« games 1974 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury 1976 Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia 1980 LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception 1980 Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) 1981 Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice 1981 Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson) 1982 2,251 turn out to see the Expos play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium 1982 Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition; 1st hockey in Meadowlands (NJ) 1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike 1982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs 1982 STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 NASA launches Galaxy-C 1985 Michael Spinks becomes 1st light heavyweight to defeat the reigning heavyweight champion, he defeats Larry Holmes 1986 Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45) 1986 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown 1986 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards 1988 Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ 1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1990 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes the 1st 25 game winner in 10 years 1990 Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season 1990 Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68, (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt 1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union |
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09-22-2007, 12:20 PM
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On this day...
530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 530 St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 530 [Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) 1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US 1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University 1776 Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British 1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK 1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress 1792 Origin of French Republican Era 1817 John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State 1862 President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech 1868 Race riots in New Orleans La 1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich) 1893 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone 1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed) 1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game 1912 Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in a game, for 2nd time in 11 days 1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class 1919 Steel strike begins in US 1925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park homers 1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney) 1927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples 1937 Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies 1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband 1949 USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb 1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general 1954 Brooklyn Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game 1955 Commercial TV begins in England 1955 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch the AL pennant 1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day) 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes the 1st "double" crossing swim of the English Channel in 43 hrs. 10 min 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances 1964 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager 1968 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions 1968 Zond 5 completes flight 1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600 1970 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway 1973 Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers 1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif 1975 World Football League folds 1977 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits Calif Angels, 9-0 1978 Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins 1980 John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffen Records 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" 1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ 1985 Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man 1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games 1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs gets his 200th hit in 5 straight seasons 1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in 1990 Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys 1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits 1991 Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public 1991 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne) |
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09-23-2007, 05:41 AM
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09-23-2007, 08:36 AM
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Well, noooo. I just think that it's a bit more exciting than: NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne) -1991  Those poor people weren't even witches! Those puritans really know how to overreact and kill people.  |
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09-23-2007, 11:27 AM
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On this day...
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement 1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis' 1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY 1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from the Pacific Northwest 1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune 1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins 1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) 1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title 1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia 1890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning 1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant) 1908 University of Alberta opens 1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released 1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title 1932 Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1933 Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm) 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4 1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation 1950 Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) 1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1961 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire 1962 ABC's 1st color TV series-The Jetsons 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 1967 Radio Malta stops testing 1969 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead 1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 1973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered 1976 Ford-Carter TV debate 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth 1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels 1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit 1979 Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC 1979 Lou Brock steals record 935th base 1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens 1983 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 1983 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 300th game (beating St Louis Cards) 1984 SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games 1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues 1986 Houston Astro Jim Deshales sets record of striking out 1st 8 men starting a ball game, beating the LA Dodgers 4-0 1988 Jose Canseco becomes baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs 1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on The Civil War 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel 1991 NY Islanders Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame |
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09-24-2007, 12:07 PM
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On this day...
312 Start of Imperial Indication 366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church 787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor 1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World 1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico 1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America 1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public 1789 Congress creates the Post Office 1789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court 1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople 1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law 1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei 1845 1st baseball team is organized 1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated 1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) 1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal 1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF 1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold 1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky 1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG) 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game 1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey 1922 Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs 1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories 1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights 1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium 1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam 1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR 1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter 1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC 1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel 1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway 1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning 1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver 1957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia 1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise) 1960 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence 1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss 1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing 1964 "The Munsters" premiers 1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd 1967 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers 1968 "60 Minutes" premiers 1968 "That's Life" premiers-A Broadway musical type TV show 1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins 1970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings 1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec) 1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34) 1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence 1973 St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals 1974 Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards 1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 1979 CompuServe system started 1982 Tennis great Bj”rn B”rg retires at 26 1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon 1984 Paul McCartney releases "No More Lonely Nights" 1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees 1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) 1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) 1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291) 1990 South African president F.W. de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC 1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market 1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premiers on ABC TV 1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity 1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles |
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09-25-2007, 15:18 PM
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On this day...
1492 Crewman on the Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early 1493 Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America 1513 Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean 1639 1st printing press in America 1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) 1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power 1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester) 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG) 1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif) 1890 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG) 1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY 1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park 1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech 1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game 1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week 1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states 1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings 1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game 1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup 1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I 1949 Louis Suggs wins US Woman's Golf championship 1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Phila Phillies, 5-0 1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark 1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses 1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia 1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup 1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album 1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days 1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium 1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park 1978 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die 1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows) 1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila) 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice 1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) 1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India 1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0 1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s 1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title 1990 Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience 1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq 1991 "Good & Evil" premiers on ABC TV 1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens |
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09-27-2007, 09:46 AM
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On this day...
1290 Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000 1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British 1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain 1787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification 1821 Mexican Empire declares its independence 1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw 1825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England 1854 Steamship Arctic sank with 300 people aboard 1863 Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas 1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti 1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 1894 Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY 1905 1st published blues composition goes on sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues 1905 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0 1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplance (France) 1919 Democratic National Committee votes to admit women 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs 1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds 1923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer 1928 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government 1930 Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf 1930 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle the ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns 1931 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game 1937 1st Santa Claus school opens (Albion NY) 1938 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow 1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces 1940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller 1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched 1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down 1942 St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of the season 1950 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis 1953 Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal 1953 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan 1954 School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools 1954 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premiers 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit 1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000 1961 Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the UN 1962 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles 1963 At 10:59 AM the census clock, records US population at 190,000,000 1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place 1964 Warren Commission released, finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone 1967 Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year 1968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year 1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error 1972 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition) 1973 Nolan Ryan strikesout his 383rd batter of the year 1973 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days) 1977 Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title 1979 Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education 1980 WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM 1982 John Palmer becomes news anchor of the Today Show 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast 1986 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms 1987 NFL players' strike 1988 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story 1988 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth 1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes 1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash 1990 A gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkley Calif 1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address the UN General Assembly 1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court nomination 1990 Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House 1991 "Princesses" premiers on CBS TV 1991 Pres Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert 1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins) |
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