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On This Day In 45 BC Roman Emperor Julius Caesar introduced to the civilized world the 365 1/4 day Julian calendar.
On This Day In 69 AD Emperor Vitellitus was elected Emperor by the Roman Senate.
On This Day In 89 AD Vitellitus Saturninus of Germany became emperor of Rome.
On This Day In 1431 Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia] Spanish/Italian pope was born. Reign (1492-1503).
On This Day In 1500 Pedro Alverez, Portuguese explorer Cabral discovered the coast of Brazil.
On This Day In 1586 Francis Drake, who left England on a new voyage to America last September, made a surprise attack on the heavily fortified city of Santo Domingo in Hispanola, forcing the governor to pay a large ransom.
On This Day In 1698 The Abenaki Indians and the Massachusetts colonists signed a treaty ending the conflict in New England.
On This Day In 1701 The Union between Great Britain & Ireland created the United Kingdom.
On This Day In 1735 Paul Revere, American patriot, silversmith who rode through the streets of Boston during the American Revolution, warning of the British landings, was born.
On This Day In 1752 Betsy Ross, flag maker who contributed to the design of the American flag, was born.
On This Day In 1766 James III Edward Old Pretender, King of England died aged 77.
On This Day In 1776 General George Washington raised a 13 Stripe continental
flag before headquarters at Cambridge Mass.
On This Day In 1788 Connecticut became the 5th State Of The Union. State Capital Hartford.
On This Day In 1788 The Times, London's oldest running newspaper, was first published.
On This Day In 1804 Haiti gained independence.
On This Day In 1833 The British government demanded the Malvinas Islands ( Falkland Islands).
On This Day In 1861 American President Abraham Lincoln declared slavery in the Confederate states as unlawful.
On This Day In 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation became law, first issued by Abraham Lincoln in September 1862.
On This Day In 1877 Victoria, Queen of England was proclaimed Empress of India.
On This Day In 1879 British novelist Edward M Forster was born. Best known as the author of Howard's End, Passage to India.
On This Day In 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), was born in Washington, DC. Died: May 2 1972.
On This Day In 1895 Blind Blake, American blues singer was born in Jacksonville, FL. Died 1 January 1937.
On This Day In 1899 Cuba was liberated from Spain by US (National Day) (US occupied until 1902).
On This Day In 1901 Australia declared it's independence from the federation of UK colonies.
On This Day In 1915 German submarine U-24 sank the British battleship Formidable off the coast of Plymouth Massachusetts.
On This Day In 1923 The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was established.
On This Day In 1930 Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry Premier/President (Sudan) was born.
On This Day In 1934 The island of Alcatraz officially became a federal American prison.
On This Day In 1935 Russian cosmonaut Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov was born.
On This Day In 1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard Queen of Netherlands was born. Reign (1980- ).
On This Day In 1942 The United States and 25 other countries signed a united declaration against the Axis.
On This Day In 1942 Soviet troops began it's offensive against Finland. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 German troops withdrew from the Ardennes, France. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 France was admitted to the United Nations.
On This Day In 1945 Operation Bodenplatte, German planes attacked American forward air bases in Europe. This was the last major offensive of the Luftwaffe. World War II.
On This Day In 1956 Sudan gained independence.
On This Day In 1956 Libya gained independence.
On This Day In 1958 Christmas Island, which had until then been administered as part of the Colony of Singapore, became a separate colony. On 1 October 1958, sovereignty was transferred to Australia.
On This Day In 1959 Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over
Fulgencio Batista.
On This Day In 1962 Western Samoa gained independence.
On This Day In 1964 Top of the Pops was launched on BBC TV. The very first Top of the Pops, broadcast on a Wednesday evening at 6.36 pm, was introduced by DJ Jimmy Saville. The opening band was The Rolling Stones, who had just made number 13 in the chart with 'I Wanna Be Your Man'.
On This Day In 1984 Brunei gained independence.
On This Day In 1993 Czechoslovakia gained independence.
On This Day In 1993 Slovakia gained independence.
On This Day In 2002 The Euro became the legal currency of 12 European countries, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
Mark Twain. American Writer (1835 - 1910)
New Years Day * Happy New Year
"On the eighth day of Christmas my true love bought for me, eight maids are milking"
Independence Day
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On This Day In 0533 John II began his reign as Catholic Pope.
On This Day In 1492 Spain recaptured Granada from the Moors (Granada Day).
On This Day In 1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale.
On This Day In 1642 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey) was born.
On This Day In 1727 English General James Wolfe who commanded the British Army (captured Québec) was born.
On This Day In 1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India.
On This Day In 1788 Georgia became the 4th State Of The Union. State Capital Alabama USA.
On This Day In 1837 Mily Balakirev, Russian composer was born. Died: 29 May 1910.
On This Day In 1839 Louis Daguerre French photographer took the first photograph of the Moon.
On This Day In 1861 Helen Herron Taft American first lady (1908-12) was born.
On This Day In 1871 Amadeus I, King of Spain was inaugurated at the age of 25.
On This Day In 1879 The first ever Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG.
On This Day In 1885 General Wolseley received the last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum. ( Sudan).
On This Day In 1903 American President T Roosevelt shut down the post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
On This Day In 1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter was discovered by Perrine.
On This Day In 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland.
On This Day In 1920 Isaac Asimov, American sci-fi writer was born. Best known as the author I Robot.
On This Day In 1932 Alan Turner Richard Thorpe, English actor was born.
On This Day In 1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap-murder of the Charles and Anne Lindbergh's son. Found guilty, Hauptmann was executed.
On This Day In 1937 Terence Rigby, English actor was born.
On This Day In 1938 David Bailley, English fashion photographer was born.
On This Day In 1938 Ian Brady notorious Moor's was born in Gorbals, Scotland.
On This Day In 1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 The German troops began their withdrawal from the Caucasus.
World War II.
On This Day In 1947 Mahatma Gandhi began his march for peace in East-Bengali.
On This Day In 1959 The Russian spacecraft Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by, first solar orbit was launched.
On This Day In 1965 A six day battle around the village of Binh Gia ended with a clear ARVN defeat. Two hundred of their best troops are killed and three hundred are wounded. Five Americans are killed and three are declared missing. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1968 Christian Barnard, heart surgeon performed his second heart transplant.
On This Day In 1969 Pinklon Thomas, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1984-1986).
On This Day In 1972 The American spacecraft Mariner 9 began mapping Mars.
On This Day In 1992 Military commanders in Croatia agreed to a cease-fire accord, the 15th attempt at a truce.
On This Day In 1993 President Bush arrived in Moscow to sign a strategic arms treaty with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who hailed the agreement as "our joint gift to the people of the Earth."
On This Day In 1995 Chechen defenders drove Russian troops out of the capital of Grozny.
On This Day In 1995 The most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away).
On This Day In 1997 90 miles off the coast of Japan the Russian
oil tanker Nakhodka broke in two. It carried 5 million gallons of fuel oil. The
bow of the ship ran aground 5 days later, 110 miles northwest of Tokyo, and much
oil was spilled.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship."
Benjamin Franklin
"On the ninth day of Christmas my true love bought for me, nine drummers drumming"
Grenada Day Spain
On This Day In 107 BC Cicero, Roman statesman and author was born.
On This Day In 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church.
On This Day In 1721 William Tucker was born. He is believed to be first American born Afro-American.
On This Day In 1777 General George Washington's forces defeat three British regiment's in the battle Of Princeton. American War of Independence.
On This Day In 1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, American women's rights activist was born.
On This Day In 1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Almost 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.
On This Day In 1883 Clement Richard Atlee, British Prime Minister was born. Died: 8 October 1967. Term of Office (1945-1951) Labour.
On This Day In 1885 Anna Pavlova, Russia's premier ballerina, was born.
On This Day In 1892 J.R.R. Tolkein, author, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Best known as the author of of The Lord of the Rings.
On This Day In 1897 Marion (Cecilia Douras) Davies, American actress was born. Best known for her performance in Going Hollywood.
On This Day In 1898 Zasu Pitts, American actress was born. Best known for her performance in Busby Berkeley's 1933 musical Dames.
On This Day In 1929 Sergio Leone Italian film maker was born Rome, Italy. Died: 30 April 1989.
On This Day In 1945 Akayab (Burma) Retaken. World War II.
On This Day In 1956 Mel Gibson, American actor was born in Peekskill, New York. Best known for his role in Mad Max.
On This Day In 1959 Alaska Became the 49th State Of The Union. State Capital
Jurneau. USA.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Chaos often breeds life when order brings habit."
Henry Brooks Adams ( 1838 - 1918 )
"On the tenth day of Christmas my true love bought for me, ten pipers piping"
On This Day In 1896 Utah became the 45th State Of The Union. State Capital
Salt Lake City. USA.
On This Day In 1935 Floyd Patterson, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1956-1959)(1960-1962). Died: August 17, 1994.
On This Day In 1948 The Union of Myanmar gained independence.
On This Day In 1972 John Ruiz, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (2001 WBA)
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I
am."
Ambrose Bierce
"On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love bought for me, eleven Lords are leaping"
Independence Day Union of Myanmar
On This Day In 1066 Edward (St.) the Confessor, King of England died in the Palace of Westminster, London. Born: circa 1002 Islip, Oxfordshire, England. (Reign: 1042-1066).
On This Day In 1779 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero was born.
On This Day In 1781 Benedict Arnold and the British plunder and burn Richmond, Virginia. American War Of Independence.
On This Day In 1855 King Camp Gillette, Inventor of the safety razor was born.
On This Day In 1880 Nikolai Medtner, Russian composer was born. Died: 13 November 1951.
On This Day In 1922 Sir Ernest Shackelton Antartic explorer died.
On This Day In 1931 Robert Duvall, American actor was born San Diego, California. Best known for his Oscar winning performance in Tender Mercies.
On This Day In 1941 The allies enter Libya. World War II.
On This Day In 1941 Britain began to attack the Italian army in North Africa. World War II.
On This Day In 1941 Bardia was captured. World War II.
On This Day In 1946 Diane Keaton, American actress was born.
On This Day In 2002 Lord Roy Jenkins of Hillhead, former Labour Chancellor and Home Secretary collapsed and died this morning at his home in Oxfordshire, aged 82.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Mark Twain * American Writer ( 1835 - 1910 )
"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, twelve ladies dancing"
Don't forget to throw out the Christmas tree
On This Day In 1066 Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, was crowned King of England.
On This Day In 1367 Richard II King of England (reign 1377-1399) was born at Bordeaux, Gascony. Murdered: 14 February 1400 at Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire.
On This Day In 1412 Joan of Arc, French heroine was born Jeanette d'Arc in the French village of Domrémy, France.
On This Day In 1540 King Henry VIII, King of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted about six months.
On This Day In 1759 George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.
On This Day In 1811 Charles Sumner, American abolitionist spokesman was born in Massachusetts. Died: 11 March, 1874 Washington, DC.
On This Day In 1838 Samuel Morse made the first public demonstration of the telegraph.
On This Day In 1872 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer was born. Died: 27 April 1915.
On This Day In 1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk and heredity pioneer died.
On This Day In 1910 Wright Morris, American author was born in Central City, Nebraska.
On This Day In 1911 Joey Adams, American comedian was born.
On This Day In 1912 New Mexico became the 47th State Of The Union. State Capital Santa Fe. USA
On This Day In 1913 Loretta Young, American actress was born.
On This Day In 1918 Germany acknowledged Finland's independence.
On This Day In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at the age of 60.
On This Day In 1930 The first ever diesel engine car trip was completed.
On This Day In 1934 Sylvia Sims, English actress was born.
On This Day In 1942 The Pan American Airways "Pacific Clipper" arrived in New York piloted by Captain Robert Ford. Ford flew west from New Zealand to avoid Japanese attacks and became the first commercial plane to make a round-the-world trip.
On This Day In 1943 Terry Venables ex Tottenham and England soccer boss was born.
On This Day In 1945 Boeing B-29's in the Pacific struck new blows on Tokyo and Nanking. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Barry John ex Welsh international rugby star was born.
On This Day In 1950 Britain recognized the Communist government of China.
On This Day In 1953 Malcolm Young Australian rocker with AC/DC was born.
On This Day In 1958 Rowan Atkinson, English comedian was born. Best known for his role as Mister Bean.
On This Day In 1967 16,000 United States and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops started their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon. They launched Operation Deckhouse V, an offensive in the Mekong River delta. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1990 American Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told CNN the U.S. invasion of Panama should not be viewed as a new "Bush doctrine" inclined toward military intervention in countries where democratic elections had been subverted.
On This Day In 1993 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer died in Paris of AIDS at aged 54.
On This Day In 1993 Dizzy Gillespie, American Jazz trumpeter died in Englewood, N.J., at aged 75.
On This Day In 1994 American President Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, died in Hot Springs, Ark., aged 70.
On This Day In 1998 The NASA Lunar Prospector, the 3rd robot mission of the Discovery Program was launched.
On This Day In 1999 Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, would marry his longtime friend, public relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones, later in the year.
On This Day In 2001 The American Congress formally certified George W. Bush the winner of the achingly close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, and slits the thin spun web of
life."
John Milton ( 1608 - 1674 )
Epiphany
Celebrates the baptism of Christ and The Three Kings visit to Bethlehem
and the Miracle of changing water into wine at Cana.
On This Day In 1297 Francois Grimaldi (Francois the Crafty) founded Monaco. The House of Grimaldi celebrated its 700th anniversary in 1997.
On This Day In 1327 Edward II, King of England was deposed.
On This Day In 1610 Galileo discovered the four major moons of Jupiter. Galileo also discovered the first three of Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede.
On This Day In 1619 Nicholas Hilliard, English Renaissance painter died in London, England. Born: Exeter, Devon, England, 1547.
On This Day In 1714 The typewriter was patented, though it was not built until many years later.
On This Day In 1718 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War hero, was born.
On This Day In 1745 Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor, was born. He and his brother launched the first successful hot-air balloon.
On This Day In 1785 The first balloon flight across the English Channel took place when Boston physician, Dr. John Jeffries, and French aeronaut, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, left Dover, England, and landed two hours later in Calais, France.
On This Day In 1789 The first United States presidential election was held. George Washington became the nation's first president.
On This Day In 1800 Millard Filmore 13th President of the United States was born. In Cayuga County New York. Term of office 1850 - 1853.
On This Day In 1807 Responding to Napoleon's blockade of the British Isles, The British blockaded Continental Europe.
On This Day In 1844 Marie Bernarde Soubirous was born at Lourdes France. She was the girl who saw the vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. Died: 16 April 1879 ( Lung disease).
On This Day In 1845 Louis III (Ludwig II), last King of Bavaria was born at Nymphenburg. He was also called the "Mad King" for his extravagant castles. Reign (1913-1918).
On This Day In 1862 French troops landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico, with the intention of taking over under the rule of Archduke Maximilian of Austria.
On This Day In 1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attacked Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre.
On This Day In 1901 The New York stock exchange trading exceeded two million shares for the first time in history.
On This Day In 1902 The Imperial Court of China returned to Peking. The Empress Dowager resumed her reign.
On This Day In 1912 Charles Addams, American cartoonist was
born. Best known as the creator of
The Addams Family.
On This Day In 1918 Germans moved 75,000 troops from the East Front to the Western Front. World War I.
On This Day In 1927 The Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
On This Day In 1937 Ian La Frenais, English TV comedy writer was born.
On This Day In 1942 The siege of Bataan began in the Philippines. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Mike McGear, English pop poet was born. Best know as the writer of the song Lilly The Pink.
On This Day In 1944 The United States Air Force announced the production of the first jet-fighter, Bell P-59 Airacomet.
On This Day In 1948 Kenny Loggins, American singer was born.
On This Day In 1950 Malcolm (Super Mac) Macdonald English soccer legend was born.
On This Day In 1952 French forces in Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of Ba Vi.
On This Day In 1955 Marian Anderson, American opera singer made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera." She was the first black singer to perform there.
On This Day In 1959 The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
On This Day In 1964 Nicolas Coppola Cage, American actor was born at Long Beach, California. Best known for his role as Castor Troy in the film Face Off.
On This Day In 1975 Hanoi troops took Phuoc Binh in new full-scale offensive. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1979 The Vietnamese army captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
On This Day In 1985 Vietnam seized the Khmer National Liberation Front headquarters near the Thai border.
On This Day In 1989 Emperor Hirohito of Japan died at age 87 after the longest reign in the history of Japan.
On This Day In 1996 American President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, engaged in a 5th sexual encounter at the White House.
On This Day In 2002 Robert Lamphere, FBI agent who oversaw several high-profile cold war espionage investigations, including those of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Kim Filby. Died: Tucson, Arizona aged 83.
On This Day In 2002 In Wimbledon SW London 2 inches of snow fell.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof, it's a temporary expedient."
James Russell Lowell * American Editor (1819 - 1891)
On This Day In 0794 AD The Church on Lindisfarne, England was destroyed by the Vikings.
On This Day In 0871 AD At the Battle at Ashdown King Ethelred of Wessex beat the Danish invasion army.
On This Day In 1081 Henry V Roman German king was born. Reign: (1098-1111-25).
On This Day In 1198 Lotario di Segni was elected the Holy Roman Catholic Pope Innocentius III.
On This Day In 1324 Marco Polo Venetian explorer and Governor of Nanking, died.
On This Day In 1642 Galileo Galilei Italian physicist/astronomer, died in Arceti Italy aged 78.
On This Day In 1656 The oldest surviving commercial newspaper began printing (Haarlem, Netherlands).
On This Day In 1681 The treaty of Radzin ended a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland.
On This Day In 1745 England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands formed an alliance against Russia.
On This Day In 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupied Stirling Scotland.
On This Day In 1786 Nicholas Biddle, head of the first United States bank, was born.
On This Day In 1790 George Washington, President of the United States of America delivered the first "State of the Union" address.
On This Day In 1800 In London, England the first soup kitchens were opened for the relief of the poor.
On This Day In 1815 American forces, under General Jackson, decisively defeated the British forces trying to capture New Orleans. The battle, which took place after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed, was the most decisive American victory of the war. Although the war had ended on 12-24-1814, but nobody knew that. War of 1812.
On This Day In 1822 Alfredo Carlo Piatti, Italian composer was born.
On This Day In 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution was born.
On This Day In 1824 William Wilkie Collins English novelist was born. Best known for his works The Woman in White and The Moonstone
On This Day In 1833 The Boston Academy of Music, became the first US music school to be established.
On This Day In 1838 The first telegraph message sent using Morse Code was made in New Jersey, USA.
On This Day In 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house, was born.
On This Day In 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, English scientist who proved Einstein right that light is bent by gravity was born in Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Died: 25 May 1939.
On This Day In 1870 The United States mint at Carson City NV began issuing coins.
On This Day In 1900 The Boers attacked Ladysmith, but are turned back by General
White in South Africa.
Boer War.
On This Day In 1908 New York's Brooklyn and Manhattan were linked with the opening of a subway.
On This Day In 1911 Thelma Butterfly McQueen, American actress was born in Tampa FL. Best know for her role as Prissy in Gone With the Wind. Died: December 22 1995.
On This Day In 1916 ALLIES RETREAT FROM GALLIPOLI: Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, ending a disastrous invasion of the Ottoman Empire. The Gallipoli Campaign resulted in 250,000 Allied casualties and greatly discredited Allied military command. Roughly an equal number of Turks were killed or wounded. World War I.
On This Day In 1918 Mississippi became the first state in America to ratify the 18th amendment, (prohibition).
On This Day In 1925 Ron Moody, English actor was born. Best known for his role as Fagin.
On This Day In 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud became king of Hejaz; then renamed it Saudi Arabia.
On This Day In 1930 In Belgium Princess Marie-José married the Italian Crown Prince Umberto.
On This Day In 1935 AC Hardy, American inventor patented the Spectrophotometer.
On This Day In 1935 Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll legend was born in Tupelo MS. Best known early hits Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog and That's Alright Mamma.
On This Day In 1937 Shirley Bassey, Welsh Singer was born. Best known for the theme tune to the James Bond Movie Diamonds Are Forever.
On This Day In 1940 In Great Britain the first items of rationing began (bacon, butter & sugar). World War II.
On This Day In 1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist was born in Oxford. Best known as the author of A Brief History of Time.
On This Day In 1943 Britain handed Madagascar over to the Free French.
On This Day In 1943 The uprising in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw began. World War II.
On This Day In 1947 David Bowie, English rock singer was born.
On This Day In 1947 The rock band the Hollies guitarist Terry Sylvester was born.
On This Day In 1948 In Holland Queen Wilhelmina signed the death warrant against Ans van Dijk for treason.
On This Day In 1952 My Darling Bosser was born. Oh Happy Day.
On This Day In 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces captured Havana.
On This Day In 1959 Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic.
On This Day In 1963 Leonardo di Vici's "Mona Lisa" went on loan to America's National Gallery of Art.
On This Day In 1964 Lyndon B Johnson, American President declared "War on Poverty", America has been attacking every poor country since.
On This Day In 1967 Operation Cedar Falls was launched. The goal of the operation is to rout out Viet Cong base camps in the Iron Triangle. This operation ended 27 January. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1973 The Russian spacecraft Luna 21 was launched for a Moon landing.
On This Day In 1973 Secret peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed near Paris.
On This Day In 1976 Chou En-lai China's PM (1949-76), died of cancer in Beijing aged 78.
On This Day In 1978 The Israeli Cabinet voted to strengthen it's settlements in occupied Sinai.
On This Day In 1982 The American Justice Department withdrew it's antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969.
On This Day In 1989 Forty-seven people were killed when a British Midland Boeing 737-400 carrying 126 passengers crashed in central England. The pilots shut down the good engine and tried to land with a bad one.
On This Day In 1990 Military tribunals in Romania began trials of the country's dreaded security forces who stood accused of resisting the revolution that toppled Nicolae Ceausescu.
On This Day In 1990 Terry Thomas, English comic actor died of Parkinson's disease aged 78.
On This Day In 1993 Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian Prime Minister was shot 7 times and killed by Serb gunmen in the presence of French peacekeepers while riding in a UN personnel carrier at a Serb checkpoint near the Serajevo airport.
On This Day In 1994 The Russian manned spacecraft TM-18 was launched into orbit.
On This Day In 1996 Francois Mitterand, French Socialist ex-minister (1981-1995) died aged 79.
On This Day In 1996 A Russian-made Antonov-32 skidded into a crowded marketplace shortly after take-off in Kinshasa in Zaire (Congo) and killed at least 350 people.
On This Day In 1998 Walter Diemer, the American who invented of Bubble Gum in 1928 died of heart failure aged 93.
On This Day In 1998 The World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On This Day In 2002 Bill Gates Microsoft Chairman unveiled the new smart watch. Watch makers such as Fossil and Citizen have signed on to produce the devices, which run on chips manufactured by National Semiconductor and utilize Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology, or SPOT.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Common sense is instinct, enough of it is genius."
George Bernard Shaw
On This Day In 1554 Gregory XV, Holy Roman Catholic Pope was born.
On This Day In 1590 Simon Vouet, French Baroque artist was born in Paris, France. Died: Paris, France, 30 June 1649.
On This Day In 1719 Philip V, King of Spain declared war on France.
On This Day In 1776 Propagandist Thomas Paine anonymously published "Common Sense," a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence.
On This Day In 1788 Connecticut became the 5th State Of The Union. State Capital
Hartford. USA.
On This Day In 1792 The Ottomans signed a treaty with the Russians ending five years of war.
On This Day In 1793 The first US manned balloon flight occurred. Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.
On This Day In 1799 Income Tax was first imposed in England.
On This Day In 1839 The Daguerrotype process was announced at the French Academy of Science.
On This Day In 1861 Southern shellfire stopped the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston harbor on her way to Fort Sumter. American Civil War.
On This Day In 1861 Mississippi became the 2nd state to secede from the Union.
On This Day In 1870 Joseph B Strauss, American builder of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco USA was born.
On This Day In 1890 Karel Capek, Czech writer and playwright, was born. Best known for the play R.U.R.
On This Day In 1898 Gracie Fields, English singing legend was born. Best know for the song Sally.
On This Day In 1909 A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reached 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They were 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather was too severe to continue.
On This Day In 1909 The steamships Florida, with 850 Italian immigrant passengers, collided with the steamship White Star luxury liner Republic. Luckily only 6 people died in the collision.
On This Day In 1915 Pancho Villa signed a treaty with U.S. General Scott, halting border conflicts.
On This Day In 1913 Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States was born in Yorba Linda, Calif. Nixon became the American President to resign.
On This Day In 1920 Clive Dunn, English TV comedy actor was born. Best known for his role as Henry Beerbohn Johnson in Bootsie and Snudge.
On This Day In 1925 Lee Van Cleef, American actor was born. Best known for his role in the spaghetti western The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
On This Day In 1936 The United States army first adopted semi-automatic rifles.
On This Day In 1941 Joan Baez, American folk singer and Vietnam War protester, was born.
On This Day In 1941 Susanah York, English actress was born. Best known for her role in the film Heaven Can Wait.
On This Day In 1943 Soviet planes dropped leaflets on the surrounded Germans in Stalingrad requesting their surrender with humane terms. The Germans refused. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Bastogne (France) was finally relieved. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Freddie Star, British comedian was born.
On This Day In 1945 American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. U.S. troops landed on Luzon, 107 miles from Manila and MacArthur finally mounted his invasion of Luzon. World War II.
On This Day In 1957 Anthony Eden resigned as British prime minister.
On This Day In 1968 The American Surveyor VII space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
On This Day In 1977 The Oakland Raiders beat the Minnesota Braves 32-14 in Super Bowl XI in Pasadena.
On This Day In 1980 Saudi Arabia beheaded 63 people in towns across the country for their roles in the November 1979 raid on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
On This Day In 1990 America's 33rd space shuttle mission Columbia (9) STS-32 (SYNCOM IV) was launched. Landed January 20, 1990, 1:35:37 a.m. PST, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
On This Day In 1991 Microsoft announced Excel 3.0
On This Day In 1997 A Brink's truck overturned in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami and spilled cash and foodstamps. $400,000 in cash and $300,000 in food stamps was quickly gathered up by residents and pocketed.
On This Day In 1997 A Comair Brazilian made Embraer 120 commuter plane crashed 18 miles southwest of Detroit and killed all 26 onboard. Icing was blamed for the crash.
On This Day In 1998 Anatoly Karpow, defending champion, defeated Viswanathan Anand in the FIDE World Chess Championship.
On This Day In 1998 Ramzi Yousef was sentenced in New York to life in prison for the 1994 bombing of a Philippines airliner and 240 years for masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
On This Day In 1998 In Northern Ireland, the British secretary, Mo Mowlam, met with prisoners at the Maze prison and got their endorsement for the Ulster Democratic Party to return to peace talks.
On This Day In 1999 Near Foca, Bosnia, French troops shot and killed Dragan Gagovic, the former police chief of Foca and a war crimes suspect.
On This Day In 2002 In Israel 2 Hamas gunmen attacked a military post and killed 4 Israeli soldiers. Israel halted work on a mosque next to the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training."
Anna Freud
On This Day In 1645 The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, was beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the Parliament.
On This Day In 1724 King Philip V King of Spain, shocked all of Europe when he abdicated his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis. Philip V (1683-1746). Reign: 1700-1746.
On This Day In 1738 Ethan Allen was born. He was the American Revolutionary commander of the Green Mountain Boys in Vermont.
On This Day In 1811 An uprising of over 400 slaves was put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks were killed and their heads were strung up along the roads of the city.
On This Day In 1834 Lord Acton, English historian and editor of The Rambler, a Roman Catholic monthly, was born.
On This Day In 1847 General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retook Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War.
On This Day In 1861 Florida became the 3rd state to secede from the Union.
On This Day In 1863 London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.
On This Day In 1864 George Washington Carver, American botanist and a former slave who became a scientist and inventor and who gave the world peanut butter was born.
On This Day In 1870 John D. Rockefeller, American tycoon and his brother William incorporated the Standard Oil Company of Ohio.
On This Day In 1883 Alexander Franklin (Frank) James brother of Jesse James was born. Died of heart attack February 18, 1915.
On This Day In 1899 Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo renounced the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines to the United States.
On This Day In 1901 The Automobile Club of America installed signs on major highways.
On This Day In 1912 The World's first flying-boat airplane, designed by Glenn Curtiss, made its maiden flight at Hammondsport. Curtis was the 1st licensed pilot and Orville Wright was the 2nd.
On This Day In 1918 In Washington, the House of Representatives passed women's suffrage.
On This Day In 1920 The League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
On This Day In 1923 The United States withdrew its last troops from Germany.
On This Day In 1928 The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
On This Day In 1940 German planes attacked 12 ships off the British coast; three sank and 35 were dead. World War II.
On This Day In 1941 The Soviets and the Germans agreed on the East European borders and the exchange of industrial equipment. World War II.
On This Day In 1942 Japanese troops invaded the Netherlands East Indies. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 Soviet troops began their offensive at Stalingrad. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 The GI Bill of Rights, first proposed by the American Legion, was passed by Congress.
On This Day In 1945 Rod Stewart, Scottish rocker was born. Best known for his recording of Maggie May.
On This Day In 1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
On This Day In 1946 Chiang Kai-shek and the Yenan Communist forces halted fighting in China.
On This Day In 1949 George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1973-1974)(1994-1995 WBA/IBF).
On This Day In 1951 Sinclair Lewis, American author died in Rome of a nervous disorder.
On This Day In 1957 Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
On This Day In 1966 The Tashkent Agreement, was signed in the Soviet city of Tashkent, and officially ended a 17-day war between Pakistan and India.
On This Day In 1967 Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
On This Day In 1978 The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a rendezvous with the Salyut VI space laboratory.
On This Day In 1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years.
On This Day In 1989 Cuba began withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived.
On This Day In 1994 Lorena Bobbitt went on trial in Manassas, Va., charged with malicious wounding of her husband, John. She had cut off her husband's penis but was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
On This Day In 1997 The NASA Near Earth Tracking Program detected an asteroid, AC11, that was about 600 feet across with a sun orbit of 9.5 months. It was the 24th Aten asteroid, a group whose orbits all lie within that of the Earth.
On This Day In 2000 Time Warner agreed to be acquired by AOL in a merger valued at $160-162 billion.
On This Day In 2000 A Crossair Saab-340 airplane crashed after take off from Zurich, Switzerland and all 10 people aboard were killed.
On This Day In 2002 Eli Hall gunman at the centre of London's longest armed siege was been removed by police. The siege began on Boxing Day when police were fired on as they tried to remove a car for forensic examination. Another man was held hostage for the first 11 days of the stand-off but he managed to escape on 5 January.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Death meant nothing to me, it was the last joke in a series of bad jokes."
Charles Bukowsi
On This Day In 1569 The First recorded lottery in England was drawn in St Paul's Cathedral.
On This Day In 1768 Nepal gained independence.
On This Day In 1787 William Herschel, American astronomer discovered Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus.
On This Day In 1875 Reinhold Gliere, Russian composer was born. Died: 23 June 1956.
On This Day In 1890 Max Carey, legendary baseball hitter with the Pittsburgh Pirates was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. Died: May 30, 1976, Miami, Florida.
On This Day In 1935 Amelia Earhart flew from Honolulu Hawaii to Oakland Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
On This day In 1942 Japanese troops captured Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia. World War II.
On This Day In 1938 Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers since 1981 was born.
On This Day In 1960 Chad declared independence from France.
On This Day In 1965 Buddhists demonstrate against the government of Tran Van Huong. The demonstrations continue and intensify until the Armed Forces Council ousts Huong. Demonstrations ended 27 January. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1970 The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Braves 23-7 in Super Bowl IV in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1996 America's 74th space shuttle mission Endevour (10) STS-72 (SFU Retrieval) was launched. Landed Saturday, January 20, 1996 2:41:41 A.M. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive,
easy to govern but impossible to enslave."
Henry Peter Brougham ( Scottish Statesman )
Independence Day
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On This Day In 1588 John Wintrop who became the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay
colony, Boston Mass, USA. was born.
On This Day In 1737 John Hancock, American statesman was born in Braintree (now in Quincy), MA. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. Died: October 8 1793, Quincy, MA. "I'll sign it in letters bold enough so the King of England can see it without his spectacles on!".
On This Day In 1856 John Singer Sargent, American Portrait painter was born in Florence, Italy (American parents). Died: London, England, 15 April 1925.
On This Day In 1905 Woodward Maurice, America's most beloved singing cowboy, was born. Best known as Tex Ritter.
On This Day In 1910 Louise Rainer, American actress was born.
On This Day In 1920 James Farmer, American black activist was born.
On This Day In 1932 Des O'Connor, British singer/comedian was born.
On This Day In 1933 Michael Aspel, British TV presenter/Chat show host was born.
On This Day In 1942 Japanese troops invaded Burma. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Allied troops attacked Monte Casino, Italy. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Joe Frazier, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1968-1970)(1970-1973).
On This Day In 1945 The Russian's took up the offensive. World War II.
On This Day In 1962 The US Air Force launched Operation Ranch Hand to deny the Vietcong theuse of the road and trails. Using a defoliating herbicide named Agent Orange,over 10% of the vegetation in Vietnam is destroyed during the course of the war. The defoliant also causes severe disabilities among Vietnam veterans. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1969 The New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III in Miami.
On This Day In 1975 The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Minnesota Braves 16-6 in Super Bowl IX in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1986 America's 24th space shuttle mission Columbia (7) STS-61-C (SATCOM-KU2) was launched. Landed January 18, 1985, 5:58:51 a.m, PST, Edwards AirForce Base, Calif.
On This Day In 1997 America's 81st space shuttle mission Atlantis (18) STA-81 (Mir-Docking/5) was launched. Landed January 22, 1997, 9:23am EST, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
On This Day In 2002 Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gee's died of a heart attack aged 57. Known for their close harmonies and original sound, the Bee Gees are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and their 1977 contributions to the "Saturday Night Fever" album made it one of the best selling movie soundtracks ever. Among their disco hits on that album are "Stayin Alive," "More Than a Woman" and "How Deep Is Your Love."
On This Day In 2002 Leopoldo Galtieri, the former Argentinean dictator who ordered the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands died from heart failure aged 76. More than 700 Argentineans and 255 Britons died during the 10-week Falklands conflict, which ended in British victory.
On This Day In 2002 Israeli helicopter gunships fired three missiles into a Palestinian orchard in the Gaza Strip and killed two teenagers.
On This Day In 2002 Seb Clover, a British schoolboy became the youngest person at 15 years old to sail solo across the Atlantic ocean. The crossing from the Canary Islands to English Harbour, Antigua, a total of 2,700 miles.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it for a few minutes."
Edward Varese
On This Day In 533 AD Remigius van Reims the first Bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, died aged 96.
On This Day In 858 AD AEthelwulf, King of England died at the Battle at Aclea. Born circa 800. Reigned 839-856 (abdicated). Under King of Kent 825-839 and 856-858.
On This Day In 888 AD Charles III, King of Franconia and Roman emperor died. Known as the Fat One.
On This Day In 888 AD Duke Odo became king of West-France.
On This Day In 1397 John of Gaunt married Katherine Rouet.
On This Day In 1406 Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer was born. Best known as the author of Della vita civile.
On This Day In 1559 Elizabeth I, Queen of England was crowned in Westminster Abbey
On This Day In 1596 Jan Van Goyen, Flemish Baroque painter was born in Leiden, Netherlands. Died: The Hague, Netherlands, 27 April 1656.
On This Day In 1610 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer discovered Callisto the 4th satellite of Jupiter.
On This Day In 1625 Jan Brueghel, the elder, Dutch Renaissance painter died in Antwerp [now Belgium]. Born: Brussels [now Belgium], 1568.
On This Day In 1691 George Fox founder of Quakers, died aged 66.
On This Day In 1785 John Walter, English newspaper publisher published the first issue of London Times.
On This Day In 1794 The American Congress changed the United States flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes.
On This Day In 1797 Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of King Frederick II, died aged 81.
On This Day In 1813 The Battle of Raisin River took place. The American force, commanded by General Winchester, surrendered to British Colonel Henry A Proctor and loses 100 dead and 500 captured. War of 1812.
On This Day In 1832 Horatio Alger Jr, American author of more than 100 inspirational books for young people from the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century was born.
On This Day In 1854 Anthony Foss, American inventor obtained a patent for the accordion.On This Day In 1864 Stephen Foster, American compose died in a New York hospital aged 37. Best known as the composer of My Old Kentucky Home.
On This Day In 1866 Vassily Kalinnikov, Russian composer was born. Died: 11 January 1901.
On This Day In 1884 Sophie Tucker (Kalish), Russia, singer and last of red hot mammas was born. Best known for her song Some Of These Days.
On This Day In 1893 Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the current Labor Party, first met.
On This Day In 1895 Fortunio Bonanova Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer was born.
On This Day In 1898 Emile Zola, French author published his open letter (J'accuse) in defence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris.
On Thus Day In 1904 Richard Addinsell, English composer was born in London England. Best known for Taming of Shrew.
On This Day In 1915 Winston Churchill presented the plan for the allied assault on the Dardanelles.
On This Day In 1918 Lord Ted Willis prolific English screenwriter was born. Best known for It's Great to be Young.
On This Day In 1919 Jesse White, American actor was born.
On This Day In 1919 Robert Stack, American actor was born in Los Angeles Califonia. Best known for his role as Eliot Ness in the Untouchables.
On This Day In 1919 California voted to ratify the Prohibition amendment.
On This Day In 1920 The New York Times editorial said rockets will never fly.
On This Day In 1923 Adolf Hitler denounced the Weimar republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrated in Germany.
On This Day In 1926 Michael Bond creator of Paddington Bear was born.
On This Day In 1929 Wyatt Earp United States Marshall died in LA, Ca aged 80. Best known for The Gun Fight at The OK Corral.
On This Day In 1942 German U-boats began harassing shipping on the east coast of America.
On This Day In 1942 Soviet troops recaptured Kiev. World War II.
On This Day In 1942 Henry Ford, American car manufacturer patented a method of constructing plastic car bodies.
On This Day In 1943 Adolf Hitler, German Fuhrer declared Total War. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 General Leclerc's Free French forces merged with the British under Montgomery in Libya. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 The Red Army opened an offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines. World War II.
On This Day In 1949 Rakesh Sharma, was born in India cosmonaut of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz T-11.
On This Day In 1953 Marshal Josip Tito was chosen as president of Yugoslavia.
On This Day In 1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow , Poland.
On This Day In 1971 The American spacecraft Apollo 14 was launched * Who said
rockets
would never fly....!
On This Day In 1974 The Miami Dolphins beat the Minnesota Braves 24-7 in Super Bowl VIII in Houston.
On This Day In 1982 An Air Florida Boeing 737 airliner took off in a snowstorm, an crashed into the 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, and then fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
On This Day In 1985 Carol Wayne, American actress and Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess died aged 42.
On This Day In 1986 Abdel Fattah Ismail President of South-Yemen (1969-80), was murdered.
On This Day In 1988 Chiang Ching-kuo President of Taiwan (1978-88), died aged 81.
On This Day In 1989 The Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) were found in Iraq.
On This Day In 1989 Computers across Britain were hit by the "Friday the 13th" virus.
On This Day In 1991 Soviet troops stormed Lithuania's radio-television center in Vilnius in an assault that claimed 14 lives. The siege crushed a woman under a tank, but failed to quash the drive for independence.
On This Day In 1992 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian negotiators began talks in Washington on Palestinian autonomy.
On This Day In 1992 Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
On This Day In 1993 America's 53rd space shuttle mission Endeavour (3) STS-54 (TDRS-F) was launched. Landed January 19, 1993, 8:37.47 a.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
On This Day In 1993 American and allied warplanes raided southern Iraq. Gulf War.
On This Day In 1993 Marine Pvt. 1st Class Domingo Arroyo became the first U.S. serviceman to be killed in Somalia.
On This Day In 1997 Seven black soldiers received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor; the lone survivor, former Lt. Vernon Baker, received his medal from President Clinton at the White House.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Farming looks easy when your plough is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from
a cornfield."
Dwight D Eisenhower
On This Day In 1236 Henry III, King of England married Eleanor of Provence.
On This Say In 1526 Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signed the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.
On This Day In 1639 "Fundamental Orders," the first constitution of Connecticut, was adopted.
On This Day In 1730 William Whipple, Representing New Hampshire at the Continental Congress, one of the Declaration of Independence signer's, was born in Kittery, Maine. Died: November 28, 1785.
On This Day In 1741 Benedict Arnold, American colonial General turned traitor.
On This Day In 1742 Edmond Halley, English astronomer who observed the comet that now bears his name, died at aged 85.
On This Day In 1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England, the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
On This Day In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.
On This Day In 1841 Berthe Morisot, French impressionist was born in Bourges, France. Died: Paris, France, March 2 1870.
On This Day In 1858 Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escaped unhurt after an Italian assassin threw a bomb at their carriage as they traveled to the Paris Opera.
On This Day In 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist was born. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
On This Day In 1878 The first private telephone call was placed by Victoria, Queen of England from Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight to Thomas Biddulph.
On This Day In 1892 Hal Roach, American film producer and director was born.
On This Day In 1898 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English writer better known as Lewis Carroll creator of "Alice in Wonderland" died in Guildford, England aged 65.
On This Day In 1911 The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, was launched from the yards of NY Shipbuilding Company.
On This Day In 1914 Henry Ford introduced the assembly line for the production of his cars.
On This Day In 1915 The French abandoned five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons. World War I.
On This Day In 1916 British authorities seized German attaché Franz von Papen's financial records confirming espionage activities in the United States.
On This Day In 1919 Andy Rooney, American humorist, author and television personality was born.
On This Day In 1926 Warren Michell, English actor was born. Best known for his role as Alf Garnett in To Death Do Us Part.
On This Day In 1932 Singer Catarina Valente was born in Paris France.
On This Day In 1934 Richard Briars, English actor was born. Best known for his role in the BBC TV series of The Good Life.
On This Day In 1936 Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, Canadian pilot were rescued by the research ship Discovery II. The pair had made the first flight across Antarctica, 2,300 miles from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, landed when their plane's engine faltered, and waited in the previously constructed shelter at Little America for a month to be picked up. After his earlier attempts to cross Antarctica failed, Ellsworth set out with Hollick-Kenyon in the monoplane Polar Star and succeeded. Part of the area that Ellsworth and Hollick-Kenyon flew over in 1935 has been named the Ellsworth Highlands.
On This Day In 1940 Julian Bond, American civil rights leader and Georgia state senator was born.
On This Day In 1941 Faye Dunaway, American actress was born in Bascom, Florida. Best known for her role as Bonny Parker in Bonny and Clyde.
On This Day In 1943 At the Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. Roosevelt announced that the war could end only with an unconditional German surrender. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 Italian occupation authorities refused to deport any Jews living on their territories in France.
On This Day In 1944 Soviet troops began their offensive against Finland. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Dr Fredrick Harold Shipman, England's most notorius serial killer was born in Nottingham, England. Shipman was convited on 31st January 2000 the jury at Preston Crown Court of 15 murders. A public inquiry stated on July 19 2002 that Shipman killed 215 patients and possibly as many as 260.
On This Day In 1953 Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
On This Day In 1968 The Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders 35-10 in Super Bowl II at Miami.
On This Day In 1963 George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."
On This Day In 1969 The Russian spacecraft Soyuz 4 was launched.
On This Day In 1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
On This Day In 1973 The Miami Dolphins beat The Washington Redskins 14-7 in Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles.
On This Day In 1994 In post-Cold War breakthroughs, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
On This Day In 1995 Russian troops in the breakaway republic of Chechnya captured the Council of Ministers building, a key rebel position in the capital Grozny.
On This Day In 1998 On Antarctica an international agreement took effect that banned mining and oil drilling for 50 years and forbade a wide range of environmental hazards including pesticides and dogs.
On This Day In 2000 The United States federal government announced the return of 84,000 acres in northern Utah to the Ute Indians. The land was taken in 1916 for the rights to oil shale reserves.
On This Day In 2002 United States warplanes began to seal the caves near Khost, Afghanistan in an effort to kill or capture Usama bin Laden.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Mark Twain * American Writer ( 1835 - 1910 )
On This Day In 69 AD Emperor Galba died - born 5 BC elected Emperor by the Roman
Senate in June 68 AD.
On This Day In 1831 Jean Baptiste Abbeloos, Orientalist was born
at Goyck, Belgium.
Died: 25 February 1906.
On This Day In 1844 Thomas Coleman Younger of the infamous Younger gang was born.
Sentenced to 25 years in Stillwater for Northfield robbery. Died Mar. 21, 1916.
On This Day In 1848 Jim Younger Toms little brother was born. Sentenced to 25 years in Stillwater for Northfield robbery. Committed suicide, October 19, 1902.
On This Day In 1861 Elisha Otis American inventor patented the steam elevator.
On This Day In 1865 The Union forces capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina. American Civil War.
On This Day In 1871 Germany gained independence.
On This Day In 1908 Edward Teller father of the Hydrogen-Bomb was born.
On This Day In 1909 Gene Krupa, American Jazz drummer was born in Chicago, IL. Died: Oct 16, 1973 in Yonkers, NY. Best known for his lengthy drum feature Sing, Sing, Sing".
On This Day In 1926 Chuck Berry, American rock 'n' roll legend was born. Best known for is rock class Sweet Little Sixteen.
On This Day In 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born.
On This Day In 1942 The invasion of Burma by Japan began. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Soviet troops began their counter-offensive at Leningrad.
World War II.
On This Day In 1948 The Pentagon building in Washington USA was completed.
On This Day In 1967 The first Super Bowl was played and the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.
On This Day In 1969 The Russian spacecraft Soyuz 5 was launched.
On This Day In 1973 Pope Paul VI had an audience with India's Golda Meir at the Vatican.
On This Day In 1978 The Dallas Cowboys beat the Denver Broncos 27-10 in Super Bowl XII in New Orleans.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Fortune favours the brave."
Terence ( 185 - 159 BC )
Independence Day Germany
On This Day In 1547 Ivan the Terrible crowned himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow. He was the first Russian ruler to assume that title.
On This Day In 1749 Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and tragic poet was born. Bet known for his poems Cleopatra and Parigi Shastigliata.
On This Day In 1757 Samuel McIntire, American architect of Salem, Massachusetts, was born.
On This Day In 1786 The Council of Virginia guaranteed religious freedom.
On This Day In 1847 John C. Fremont, the famed "Pathfinder" of Western exploration, was appointed governor of California.
On This Day In 1865 General Sherman began his march through the Carolinas. Sherman issued an order that set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina for freed slaves.
On This Day In 1870 Jimmy Collins, legendary baseball clutch hitter with the Boston Red Sox was born in Buffalo, New York. Died: March 6, 1943, Buffalo, New York.
On This Day In 1883 The United States Civil Service Commission was established. The US Civil Service Reform Act prohibited federal employees from contributing to political campaigns.
On This Day In 1900 The United States Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 by which the Britsh renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.
On This Day In 1909 Ethel Merman, American actress/singer was born. Best known as the "Queen of Broadway."
On This Day In 1909 One of Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration teams reached the Magnetic South Pole.
On This Day In 1912 Robert Falcon Scott, British explorer reach the South Pole only to find the black flag of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Thoroughly demoralized, the five members of the Scott party died during their 800-mile trek back to their base camp.
On This Day In 1914 Maxim Gorky was authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence.
On This Day In 1919 Nebraska, Wyoming and Missouri became the 36th, 37th and 38th states to ratify Prohibition, which went into effect a year later.
On This Day In 1919 Prohibition became law in the United States with the passage of the Volstead Act, which enforced and defined the 18th Amendment.
On This Day In 1920 Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution took effect. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment. Alcohol was outlawed in the United States with the passage of the 18th amendment.
On This Day In 1920 The League of Nations held its first meeting in Paris.
On This Day In 1938 Joyce Carol Oates, American writer and university professor, was born. Best known as the writer of "Them" and "Garden of Earthly Delights."
On This Day In 1938 Benny Goodman performed at Carnegie Hall along with Count Basie, Harry James, Lester Young, Gene Krupa, Johnny Hodges, Lionel Hampton and 17 others.
On This Day In 1940 Hitler canceled an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium. World War II.
On This Day In 1941 Christine Truman ex Wimbledon ladies single tennis champion was born.
On This Day In 1942 Carole Lombard, American actress, her mother were among some 20 people killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas while returning from a tour to promote war bonds.
On This Day In 1942 Japan's advance into Burma began. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Dwight D Eisenhower was named commander of the allied forces. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 The United States First and Third armies linked up at Houffalize, effectively ending the Battle of the Bulge. World War II.
On This Day In 1948 Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker ace was born.
On This Day In 1948 John Carpenter, American movie director was born. Best known as the director of Halloween.
On This Day In 1956 The Egyptian government made Islam the state religion.
On This Day In 1956 Egyptian President Nasser pledged to reconquer Palestine.
On This Day In 1964 The musical "Hello, Dolly!," starring Carol Channing, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
On This Day In 1972 The Dallas Cowboys beat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in Super Bowl VI in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1975 The Irish Republican Army called an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast.
On This Day In 1978 The Russian spacecraft Soyuz 27 returned safely to Earth.
On This Day In 1981 In Northern Ireland, Protestant gunmen shot and wounded Irish nationalist leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband.
On This Day In 1991 In America the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
On This Day In 1992 Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had left at least 75,000 people dead.
On This Day In 1997 Enis Cosby aged 27, son of American actor Bill Cosby, was murdered in Los Angeles while changing a tire in an apparent roadside robbery.
On This Day In 1997 Israeli soldiers dismantled their military headquarters in Hebron, marking the beginning of the end of Israel's 30-year-old rule in the West Bank city. A 5th of the city where 500 militant settlers live will maintain a force of some 2,500.
On This Day In 1998 Baltic leaders signed an agreement, the US-Baltics Charter of Partnership, at the White House strengthening US and NATO ties with Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
On This Day In 1999 Methodist ministers in Sacramento, Ca., blessed the union of 2 lesbians in contradiction to Church law.
On This Day In 1999 The United States and North Korea opened talks on inspections of a suspected underground nuclear facility.
On This Day In 2000 In Chechnya Russian warplanes bombarded the area around Grozny and federal forces reported 120 rebels killed. Islamic militants reported at least 18 civilians killed.
On This Day In 2000 In Lhasa, Tibet, Soinam Puncog, was designated the 7th Reting Lama in a ceremony presided over by Chinese authorities.
On This Day In 2001 In China the Shenzhou II unmanned spacecraft landed after 108 orbits.
On This Day In 2001 The Ecuadoran tanker Jessica with 243,000 gallons of fuel, ran aground on San Cristobal island in the Galapagos and began leaking fuel 3 days later.
On This Day In 2001 Luther and Johnny Htoo, twin adolescent leaders of an ethnic Karen rebel group in Myanmar, surrendered to Thai border police.
On This Day In 2002 Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan President issued a decree that banned the cultivation of opium poppies.
On This Day In 2003 America's 113th space shuttle mission Columbia (28) STS-107 (SpaceHab-DM Research Mission, Freestar) was launched. Landed February 1 2003 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly
move the world."
Archimedes Greek Mathematician (287 - 212 B.C)
On This Day In 394 AD The Roman Emperor Flavius Theodosius died at Milan Italy. Born in Spain circa 346.
On This Day In 1504 Pius V, Holy Roman Pope from 1566-1572, was born.
On This Day In 1562 French Protestant Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.
On This Day In 1601 The Treaty of Lyons ended a short war between France and Savoy. Savoy was ceded to France in 1860.
On This Day In 1706 Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, Printer, Publisher, Scientist. Clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, on of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was born in Boston Ma. Died: April 17, 1790.
On This Day In 1746 Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender, defeated the British forces at the battle of Falkirk in Scotland.
On This Day In 1773 Captain James Cook with a crew of 193 first crossed the Antarctic circle (66 deg 33 min's) in the ship Resolution 462 tons.
On This Day In 1819 Simon Bolivar the "liberator" proclaimed Columbia a republic.
On This Day In 1852 At the Sand River Convention, the British recognized the independence of the Transvaal Board.
On This Day In 1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer was born. Best known as the writer of "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters."
On This Day In 1863 David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister was born. Died: 26 March 1945. Term of Office (1916-1922) Liberal.
On This Day In 1893 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, (1877-1881), died in Fremont, Ohio, at aged 70.
On This Day In 1899 Alphonse Capone, notorious American gangster was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The U.S. mobster known as "Scarface Al" he later ran most of Chicago and the surrounding area. Died: 25th January 1947.
On This Day In 1912 Captain Robert Scott, English Antarctic explorer reached the South Pole a month after Amundsen.
On This Day In 1942 Muhammed Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1964-1965)(1965-1967)(1978-1979) retired.
On This Day In 1942 Randy Boone, American actor was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Best known as Randy the ranch hand in the TV western series The Virginian.
On This Day In 1944 The Battle of Garigliano (Italy) began. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw, Poland. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 The Nazis evacuated Auschwitz, prisoners began "death marches" toward Germany. World War II.
On This Day In 1946 The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.
On This Day In 1963 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader visited the Berlin Wall.
On This Day In 1971 The Baltimore Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in Super Bowl V in Miami.
On This Day In 1977 Gary Gilmore, convicted in the double murder of an elderly couple, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first United States execution in a decade.
On This Day In 1991 The Gulf War began as Coalition planes struck targets in Iraq and Kuwait. The first Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israel were launched.
On This Day In 1992 Eight Protestant laborers were killed in an IRA bombing in Northern Ireland.
On This Day In 1993 The United States, accused Iraq of a series of military provocations, unleashed Tomahawk missiles against a military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad.
On This Day In 1996 Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine followers were handed long prison sentences for plotting to blow up New York-area landmarks.
On This Day In 1996 Former United States Representative Barbara Jordan died in Austin, Texas, aged 59.
On This Day In 1996 Russian forces unleashed a scorching barrage of rockets on Chechen rebels in Pervomayskaya.
On This Day In 1997 Clyde William Tombaugh, American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930, died in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
On This Day In 1997 A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
On This Day In 2000 British pharmaceutical firms Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC announced a merger to form the world's largest drug maker valued at $186 billion.
On This Day In 2000 In Chechnya Russian aircraft and artillery bombed Grozny with a record number of attacks.
On This Day In 2001 In Britain the House of Commons voted 387 to 174 to ban fox hunting.
On This Day In 2002 In Leicester, England, police arrested 2 Algerian men allegedly involved in a plot to bomb the United States Embassy in Paris. Another 8 men were arrested north of London under the Terrorism Act.
On This Day In 2002 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish novelist and 1989 Noble Prize winner, died in Madrid aged 85.
On This Day In 2003 The movie 8 Mile starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittiny Murphy, Mekhi Phifer and Eugene Byrd went on general release in Britain.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright they're grand."
Benny Hill (English Comedian)
On This Day In 336 AD St Mark began his reign as Catholic Pope.
On This Day In 1486 Henry VII, King of England married Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
On This Day In 1644 Perplexed pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting.
On This Day In 1778 Captain James Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).
On This Day In 1837 Cesar Cui, Russian composer was born. Died: 29 May 1910.
On This Day In 1904 Cary Grant, English actor was born in Bristol, England. Died: 29 November 1986.
On This Day In 1912 Robert F. Scott, English explorer and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that the Norweigian Roald Amundsen had gotten there first.
On This Day In 1943 German troops began their counter-offensive in Tunisia. World War II.
On This Day In 1976 The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in Super Bowl X in Miami.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Work to become, not to acquire."
Confucius
On This Day In 1736 James Watt inventor of the steam engine was born.
On This Day In 1807 Robert E Lee American Confederate General was born.
On This Day In 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American poet/horror writer was born in Boston, Mass.
On This Day In 1839 Paul Cezanne, French impressionist was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. Died: October 22 1906 Aix-en-Provence, France.
On This Day In 1862 The Union forces defeated the Confederate forces at Mill Springs, Kentucky. American Civil War.
On This Day In 1903 The first regular transatlantic radio broadcast was made between England and the United States of America.
On This Day In 1906 Lanny Ross, American singer was born.
On This Day In 1931 Carl Brashear was born in Kentucky. He amassed the distinction of being a pioneer in the Navy as the first black deep sea diver, the first black Master Diver, and the first person in naval history to be restored to full active duty as an amputee (an injury he sustained during a salvage operation), following full restoration as an amputee. Carl was the first amputee to be advanced to the rate of Master Chief Petty Officer. He also became the only amputee deep-sea diver to reach the status of Master Diver and he is the only black to ever hold the position of Master Diver of the United States Navy
On This Day In 1935 Tippi Hedren, American actress was born. Best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds.
On This Day In 1937 Howard Hughes, American millionaire set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
On This Day In 1946 Dolly Parton, American country singer was born.
On This Day In 1953 Desi Arnez Jr, American actor was born.
On This Day In 1965 America's 2nd unmanned Gemini-II (GT-02) spacecraft was launched at 9:03:59.861 am EST. Landed January 19, 1965 9:22:14 in the Atlantic Ocean.
On This Day In 1999 Carl Perkins, American rock 'a' billy legend died aged 65. Best known for the legenday Blue Suede Shoes.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Time goes, you say ? Ah no ! Alas, time stays, we go."
On This Day In 225 AD The Roman Emperor Gordian III was born.
On This Day In 1265 The first English parliament was called into session by the Earl of Leicester.
On This Day In 1357 Edward II, King of England was deposed by his eldest son, Edward III.
On This Day In 1616 Samuel de Champlain, French explorer arrived to winter in a Huron Indian village after being wounded in a battle with Iroquois in New France.
On This Day In 1732 Richard Henry Lee, American Revolutionary patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
On This Day In 1760 Charles III, King of Spain was born. Died: December 13 1788.
On This Day In 1783 England signed preliminary articles of peace with France and Spain. American War of Independence.
On This Day In 1801 John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States.
On This Day In 1839 Chile defeated a confederation of Peru and Bolivia in the Battle of Yungay.
On This Day In 1841 The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain from China as part of the concessions from the Opium War. It became a capitalist bastion as opposed to the rest of China. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.
On This Day In 1887 The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
On This Day In 1893 Bessy Colman, first African American aviator, was born.
On This Day In 1896 George Burns, Nathan Birnbaum, American comedian was born New York City. Died: September 3 1996.
On This Day In 1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian composer was born. Died: 29 September 1977.
On This Day In 1910 Joy Adamson, British author and naturalist, was born. He lived in Kenya and was best known as the author of "Born Free."
On This Day In 1920 Federico Fellini, Italian movie director was born in Rimini, Italy.
On This Day In 1929 The first feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, in old Arizona USA.
On This Day In 1930 Dr Buz Aldrin, American Astronaut was born. Best known as the second man who walked on the Moon.
On This Day In 1930 Charles Lindbergh arrived in New York, setting a cross country flying record of 14.75 hours.
On This Day In 1936 King George V, King of England who reigned from 1910-1936, died at aged 70; he was succeeded by Edward VIII.
On This Day In 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, United States President was inaugurated for his 3rd term. It was the first time any United States President had been elected for more than two terms.
On This Day In 1941 Adolf Hitler met with Mussolini and offered aid in Albania and Greece. World War II.
On This Day In 1942 Fifteen Nazi and government leaders meet at Wannsee, a section of Berlin, to discuss the "final solution to the Jewish question. World War II.
On This Day In 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".
On This Day In 1944 The allied landings at Anzio (Italy) began. 50,000 allied troops were landed there. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Allied forces began unsuccessful operations to cross the Rapido River and seize Casino. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 The Allies signed a truce with the Hungarians. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States for his fourth term.
On This Day In 1946 Charles DeGaulle, French President handed in his resignation.
On This Day In 1952 British troops occupied Ismalia, Egypt.
On This Day In 1954 Over 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners were turned over to the UN forces in Korea.
On This Day In 1964 The American CIA built a tunnel from west Berlin to East Berlin to tap Soviet and East German communications.
On This Day In 1980 The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the LA Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV in Pasadena.
On This Day In 1981 Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
On This Day In 1985 The San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX in Stanford.
On This Day In 1986 Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
On This Day In 1987 Terry Waite, British Anglican Church envoy disappeared in Beirut, Lebanon, while attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. (He was freed in November 1991.)
On This Day In 1989 George Bush was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.
On This Day In 1990 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress died in Santa Monica, California aged 82.
On This Day In 1992 A French Airbus A-320 crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87 people.
On This Day In 1993 Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
On This Day In 1993 Audrey Hepburn, actress died of colon cancer in Switzerland at age 63. Born 4 May 1928 Brussels, Belgium. Best known as the star of movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
On This Day In 2001 President Bill Clinton in his final hours of office issued 36 commutations and 140 pardons that included Susan McDougal, Patricia Hearst, Henry Cisneros, John Deutch and Roger Clinton. It was later revealed that Hugh Rodham, the brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, received $400,000 to help 2 felons win clemency.
On This Day In 2001 George Bush Jr, the first American President with an MBA, was inaugurated as the nation's 43rd president in Washington DC.
On This Day In 2001 In Iraq the government said United States and British warplanes killed 6 citizens in air attacks over southern Al-Muthana province.
On This Day In 2002 Carrie Hamilton, American actress and daughter of Carol Burnett, died of cancer at aged 38.
On This Day In 2003 U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to Ship Sun's Java in Windows within 120 days.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever."
Martin Luther King Day
On This Day In 1159 Philip Augustus, Richard I of England and Frederick I Barbarossa assembled their troops for the Third Crusade.
On This Day In 1737 Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary commander of the "Green Mountain Boys" who captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, was born.
On This Day In 1743 John Fitch American inventor of the steamboat was born.
On This Day In 1785 Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians signed a treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States.
On This Day In 1790 Joseph Guillotine proposed a new, more humane method of execution, a machine designed to cut off the condemned person's head as painlessly as possible.
On This Day In 1793 In France the Great Terror continued. Louis XVI, last of the Bourbon dynasty, was condemned for treason and executed on the guillotine aged 38.
On This Day In 1813 John C Fremont American mapmaker and explorer of the western United States Of America was born.
On This Day In 1813 The Battle of Raisin River took place. The American force, commanded by General Winchester, surrendered to British Colonel Henry A Proctor and loses 100 dead and 500 captured. War of 1812
On This Day In 1815 American Horace Wells dentist, pioneer of medical anesthesia was born.
On This Day In 1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General, was born.
On This Day In 1888 Huddie Leadbetter ( Leadbelly), American blues singer was born in Shiloh, Louisiana. USA.
On This Day In 1892 Samuel Marsden Brookes, English-born artist, died in San Francisco.
On This Day In 1917 Rudolf von Eschwege, German flying ace was killed over Macedonia when he attacked a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives. World War I.
On This Day In 1924 Telly Savalas, American actor was born. Best known for his performance in the American TV series Kojak.
On This Day In 1924 Benny Hill, British comedian was born in Southampton. Died: April 18 1992, Teddington, Middlesex.
On This Day In 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary died at aged 54.
On This Day In 1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfing legend was born.
On This Day In 1942 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, launched a drive to push the British eastward in North Africa. World War II.
On This Day In 1942 Count Basie and his Orchestra recorded "One O'Clock Jump" in New York City for Okeh Records.
On This Day In 1943 A Nazi daylight air raid killed 34 in a London school. World War II.
On This Day In 1950 George Orwell, British author died in London of tuberculosis aged 46. Best known as the author of the book 1984.
On This Day In 1954 The USS Nautilus, the first atomic powered submarine was launched in Groto Connecticut USA.
On This Day In 1960 America's 6th unmanned space probe LJ-1B (Little Joe 1B) was launched from Wallops Island. Duration: 0 Days, 0 hours, 8 min, 35 seconds. Crew: Miss Sam (a monkey). Mercury Project.
On This Day In 1968 The Siege of Khe Sanh began as North Vietnamese units surround U.S. Marines based on the hilltop headquarters. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1968 An American B-52 bomber loaded with hydrogen bombs crashed at North Star Bay, Greenland.
On This Day In 1970 United States war planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North Vietnam.
On This Day In 1976 A British Airways and an Air France supersonic Concorde took off simultaneously on their inaugural flights.
On This Day In 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders as long as they had not been involved in violent acts.
On This Day In 1979 Neptune became the outermost planet so Pluto moved closer.
On This Day In 1979 The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl XIII in Miami.
On This Day In 1993 Two United States warplanes bombed a defense site in northern Iraq after radar was turned on them. (Iraq denied provoking the attack.)
On This Day In 1997 In Algeria two car bombs in the capital killed as a many as 18 people.
On This Day In 1998 Jack Lord, American actor died in Honolulu at aged 77. Best known for his performance in the American TV series Hawaii Five-O.
On This Day In 2000 Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died in Jackson, Miss aged 80.
On This Day In 2002 K-Mart, the 3rd largest US discount retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection. Kmart was operating 2,100 stores with 250,000 employees.
On This Day In 2003 Simon Vallor, 22, was jailed for two years when he admitted infecting thousands of computers across the world with fast-spreading viruses.
Your Thought For Today Is:
".The wise will make more opportunities than they find."
On This Day In 1440 Ivan III, grand Prince of Russia, czar from 1462-1505, was born. Died: 1505.
On This Day In 1561 Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher was born at York House off the Strand, London. Died: April 9, 1626.
On This Day In 1689 England's "Bloodless Revolution" reached its climax when parliament invited William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
On This Day In 1788 Lord George Byron, English poet was born in London, England. Died: 19 April 1824.
On This Day In 1813 British forces under Henry Proctor along with Indian allies under Tecumseh defeated a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit. War of 1812.
On This Day In 1824 A British force was wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This was the first ever defeat for a colonial power.
On This Day In 1863 In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside led his army on a march north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogged his army down in what became known as "Mud March." American Civil War.
On This Day In 1874 David Wark Griffith, American movie director, was born. Best known as the director of the movie The Birth of A Nation.
On This Day In 1879 153 soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Wales defeated 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. Winning 11 Victoria Crosses.
On This Day In 1901 Queen Victoria, Queen of England died at aged 82.
On This Day In 1906 Willa Brown-Chappell, American pioneering aviator, was born in Indiana. Willa Brown Chappell became the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license.
On This Day In 1909 Ann Sothern, American actress was born in Valley City, North Dakota. Died: 2001.
On This Day In 1909 U Thant, Secretary General of United Nations General Assembly (1962-1972), was born in Burma. He played a major role in the Cuban missile crisis.
On This Day In 1913 Turkey consented to the Balkan peace terms and gave up Adrianpole.
On This Day In 1917 President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." By April, however, America was also at war. World War I.
On This Day In 1920 William Warfield, American singer was born.
On This Day In 1920 Soccer legend Sir Alf Ramsey, the only manager to lead any England
soccer team to world cup victory (1966) was born.
On This Day In 1922 Pope Benedict XV Holy Roman Catholic Pope died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.
On This Day In 1932 Piper Laurie, American actress was born.
On This Day In 1934 Bill Bixby, American actor was born.
On This Day In 1940 John Hurt ,English actor was born. Best known for his role as the the Elephant Man.
On This Day In 1941 Australian Armed forces captured Tobruk, taking 2,500 prisoners. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 Axis forces pulled out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they left. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 American troops under Major General John P. Lucas made an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome. World War II.
On This Day In 1948 George Foreman, American, ex heavyweight boxing champion of the world was born.
On This Day In 1953 The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
On This Day In 1959 Linda Blair, American actress was born. Best known for her role in The Exorcist.
On This Day In 1961 A Portuguese ocean liner, the "Santa Maria," was hijacked in the Caribbean with some 600 passengers aboard, the drama ended eleven days later when the ship docked in Brazil.
On This Day In 1968 America's 5th unmanned Apollo (AS-204) spacecraft was launched at 05:48:08 pm EST, Cape Canaveral FL. First test of Lunar Module in space.
On This Day In 1968 The comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC.
On This Day In 1970 The Boeing 747 began it's first scheduled commercial flight from New York City and ended in London some 6 1/2 hours later.
On This Day In 1971 Communist forces shelled Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the first time. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1972 Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway joined the European Economic Community.
On This Day In 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson, former American President (1963-1969) died at his Texas ranch at age 64.
On This Day In 1979 Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, was killed by a bomb in Beirut.
On This Day In 1984 The LA Raiders beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa.
On This Day In 1989 The San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengal's 20-16 in Super Bowl XXIII in the Joe Robbie Stadium Miami.
On This Day In 1992 America's 45th space shuttle mission Discovery (14) STS-42 IML-01 was launched. Landed January 30, l992, 8:07:17 a.m. PST, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman in space. She rode the shuttle Discovery and performed life and material-science experiments.
On This Day In 1994 Telly Savalas, American actor died in Universal City, Calif., aged 70.
On This Day In 1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy died at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., aged 104.
On This Day In 1995 Two Palestinians blew themselves up at Beit Lid junction in central Israel and killed 21 Israelis. Dozens of others were injured and the Islamic Jihad took responsibility.
On This Day In 1998 America's 89th space shuttle mission Endeavour (12) STS-89 (Mir-Docking/8) was launched. Landed January 31 1998 at 5:36 p.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
On This Day In 2001 In Britain the House of Lords passed legislation that effectively legalized the creation of cloned human embryos.
On This Day In 2002 Peggy Lee, American jazz and blues singer died at aged 81.
On This Day In 2003 Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist died in a Southern California nursing home of Alzheimer's disease.
On This Day In 2003 In Fort Lauderdale, Fla the saga of the alleged first human clone wound up in a court, with a skeptical-sounding judge probing a representative of the company that said it produced the baby but given no evidence. Clonaid, founded by a sect that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials, caused an international stir last month by announcing it had produced the first cloned human, a baby girl called "Eve" born to an American mother on December. 26.
On This Day In 2003 Microsoft the world's largest software company filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va. seeking a stay of the Java "must-carry" order until the court considers its challenge of the order.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Few have all they need, none have all they wish."
On This Day In 1167 Abraham-ben-Méir Aben-Ezra, celebrated Spanish Rabbi died on his journey from Rome to his native land. Born at Toledo 1092.
On This Day In 1719 Liechtenstein gained independence.
On This Day In 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, genius composer was born.
On This Day In 1789 Georgetown University was established by Jesuits in present-day Washington, D.C., as the 1st US Catholic college.
On This Day In 1820 Alexander Serov, Russian composer was born. Died: 01 February 1871
On This Day In 1832 Edouard Manet, French impressionist was born in Paris, France. Died: 30 April 1883 Paris, France.
On This Day In 1849 English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
On This Day In 1899 Lord Denning ex Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls was born.
On This Day In 1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor was born. Best known for his role in Casablanca.
On This Day In 1919 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, was born.
On This Day In 1920 The Dutch government refused demands from the victorious Allies to hand over Kaiser Wilhelm II, the dethroned German monarch who had fled to the Netherlands.
On This Day In 1923 The first successful test on a human patient with diabetes occurred when insulin was administered to dangerously ill Leonard Thompson.
On This Day In 1933 Arlene Golonka, American actress was born.
On This Day In 1933 Chita Rivera, American actress star of West Side Story was born.
On This Day In 1942 Japanese land in New Guinea and threaten Australia. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 British troops halt the German offensive and captured Tripoli. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor was born.
On This Day In 1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
On This Day In 1958 Princess Caroline of Monaco was born.
On This Day In 1964 The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.
On This Day In 1968 North Korea seized the American Navy intelligence ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. One crewman was killed in the attack. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher was quickly separated from the 81-man crew. The crew was released 11 months later.
On This Day In 1969 NASA unveiled a moon-landing craft.
On This Day In 1973 American President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1985 A debate in Britain's House of Lords was carried live on television for the first time.
On This Day In 1989 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist died aged 84.
On This Day In 1991 Iraqi forces in Kuwait deliberately created a huge oil spill in the Persian Gulf. Gulf War.
On This Day In 1996 Sandra Jensen became the first person with Down syndrome to receive a new heart and Lungs. The surgery was done at Stanford Univ.
On This Day In 1997 The Age of Aquarius dawned at 12:56 p.m.
On This Day In 1997 A new species of a carnivorous dinosaur from 120 million years ago was found in southern England. At 26-feet it was larger than a velociraptor but smaller than a tyrannosaurus rex.
On This Day In 1998 In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Liam Conway, a Catholic worker, was shot and killed. The Ulster Freedom Fighters earlier claimed responsibility for 3 Catholic deaths since new year's Eve. The Ulster Volunteer Force was suspected in Conway's death.
On This Day In 1999 Jay Pritzker, founder of the Hyatt hotel chain, died at aged 76.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised Mother-in-Law."
Independence Day Liechtenstein
On This Day In 41 AD Gaius Caligula Germanicus, Roman Emperor from 37-41, was assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes.
On This Day In 76 AD Publius A Hadrianus 14th Roman Emperor (117-138) was born. Died : July 10, 138.
On This Day In 1458 Matthias Corvinus, the son of John Hunyadi, was elected king of Hungary. Reign: (1440-1490).
On This Day In 1712 Frederick II (the Great), the Hohenzollern King of Prussia was born. Reign: (1740-1786).
On This Day In 1722 Czar Peter the Great capped his reforms in Russia with the "Table of Rank" which decreed a commoner could climb on merit to the highest positions.
On This Day In 1732 Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais, French dramatist, was born. Best known for his plays "Barber of Civil" and "Marriage of Figaro."
On This Day In 1848 Gold was discovered by carpenter James Wilson Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River. This find sparked the Gold Rush of 1849.
On This Day In 1862 Edith Wharton, American novelist was born. Best known for her novel Age of Innocence.
On This Day In 1893 Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani stepped down from the throne on, to avoid any bloodshed and to pardon her supporters who had been jailed by the Provisional Government, which had asked her to abdicate.
On This Day In 1903 American Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Herbert created a joint commission to establish the Alaskan border.
On This Day In 1908 Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.
On This Day In 1915 The German cruiser Blücher was sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank. World War I.
On This Day In 1919 Grand Prince Pavel Alexandrovich, a son of Czar Alexander II, and grand princes Nikolai Mikhailovich, Georgy Mikhailovitch and Dmitry Konstantinovich, nephews of the czar, were executed at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
On This Day In 1922 Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, patented the Eskimo Pie.
On This Day In 1924 St. Petersburg in Russia was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. It has since been re-named St. Petersburg.
On This Day In 1927 A British expeditionary force of 12,000 was sent to China to protect concessions at Shanghai.
On This Day In 1931 The League of Nations rebuked Poland for the mistreatment of a German minority in Upper Silesia.
On This Day In 1942 A special court of inquiry into America's lack of preparedness for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor placed much of the blame on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders. World War II.
On This Day In 1943 President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 A German attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest was finally halted by the Soviets. World War II.
On This Day In 1946 The United Nation's established the International Atomic Energy Commission.
On This Day In 1965 Sir Winston Churchill, Great Britain's greatest statesman died from a cerebral thrombosis at aged 90.
On This Day In 1966 In the largest search and destroy mission up to that point in the war, Operation Masher, 2,389 Viet Cong casualties are reported. The name of the operation is changed from Operation Masher to White Wing at the insistence of the President. The operation combined US and Vietnamese troops in sweeps and amphibious assaults. Went on until 6 March. Vietnam War.
On This Day In 1978 Cosmos, a 4-month-old nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
On This Day In 1982 The San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengal's 26-21 in Super Bowl XVI in Pontiac, MI.
On This Day In 1985 America's 15th space shuttle mission, Discovery (3) STS-51-C (DOD) was launched. Landed 27 January 1985 4:23:23 p.m. EST.
On This Day In 1986 The American space probe Voyager 2 swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.
On This Day In 1989 Ted Bundy notorious American serial killer was executed in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
On This Day In 1992 The state of Arkansas executed convicted cop-killer Rickey Ray Rector after Gov. Bill Clinton refused to intervene.
Your Thought For Today Is:
Shit happens
On This Day In 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read. was born in Alloway, Ayreshire.
On This Day In 1863 Union General Joseph Hooker was named Commander of the Army of the Potomac. American Civil War.
On This Day In 1915 Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
On This Day In 1942 Eusebio Ferreira da Silva, Portuguese soccer legend was born in Lourenco-Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. Known as "The Black Pearl" or "The Black Panther,". He finished his playing years in North America, then went into coaching. In 1998 Eusebio was inducted into the International Football Hall of Champions.
On This Day In 1942 Japanese troops landed on the Solomon Islands. World War II.
On This Day In 1981 The Oakland Raiders beat the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 in Super Bowl XV in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1987 The New York Giants beat the the Denver Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena.
On This Day In 1998 The Denver Broncos beat the the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind---listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."
Eubie Blake
On This Day In 1715 Claude Helveticus the French philosopher was born.
On This Day In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet raised the flag on Australia's first European settlement at Sydney Cove. Originally called Foundation Day now called Australia Day.
On This Day In 1837 Michigan became the 26th State
of the Union. State Capital Lansing. USA
On This Day In 1841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of England.
On This Day In 1880 American General Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
On This Day In 1888 The Lawn Tennis Association came into being at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street, London with William Renshaw, six times Wimbledon Champion, becoming the first president.
On This Day In 1925 Paul Newman, American actor was born. Best known for his role as Buch Cassidy in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid.
On This Day In 1928 American singer Eartha (An old fashion man) Kitt was born.
On This Day In 1942 The first American troops arrived in Britain. World Way II.
On This Day In 1945 Japanese troops withdrew to the Chinese coast. World War II.
On This Day In 1950 In 1950, India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
On This Day In 1976 Israel opens (The good fence) to Lebanon.
On This Day In 1986 The Chicago Bears beat the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1992 The Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis.
On This Day In 1997 The Green Bay Packers beat the New England Patriots 35-21 in Super Bowl XXXI in New Orleans.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"You don't plan to fail you fail to plan."
Australia Day
On This Day In 1556 Abbas I "The Great", Shah of Persia (1587-1629) was born.
On This Day In 1695 Mustafa II became the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II.
On This Day In 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. Died: 5 December 5 1791, Vienna, Austria. Best known as the composer of "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute."
On This Day In 1825 The American Congress approved Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
On This Day In 1832 Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ), English author was born in Daresbury, Cheshire. Died: January 14 1898. Best known as the author of Alice in Wonderland.
On This Day In 1850 Samuel Gompers, first President of the American Federation of Labor, was born.
On This Day In 1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II, German emperor during World War I, was born. He was forced to abdicate in 1918. Emperor from (1888-1918).
On This Day In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.
On This Day In 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
On This Day In 1900 Hyman Rickover, American admiral, was born. Best known as the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."
On This Day In 1901 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, died at the Grand Hotel in Milan, Italy, at aged 87.
On This Day In 1924 The body of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was placed in a mausoleum in Red Square Moscow.
On This Day In 1936 Troy Donohue, American actor was born. Best known for his performance in the movie A Summer Place.
On This Day In 1943 The United States first air attack on Germany at Wilhelmshafen and Emden took place. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Leningrad (Russia) liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Soviet troops liberate the German death camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. It is now believed that 1 million Jews were murdered here, up to 75,000 Polish Christians, 21,000 Gypsies, and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. World War II.
On This Day In 1951 America's era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats, in Clark County.
On This Day In 1959 NASA selected 110 candidates for the first American space flight.
On This Day In 1962 The San Francisco Bay Area hosted the Chubby Checker Twist Party at the Cow Palace. 17,000 fans made it the first big rock concert in Bay Area history.
On This Day In 1965 Military leaders ousted the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon.
On This Day In 1967 America's first manned Apollo 1 (AS-204) spacecraft ended in tragedy when astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were killed when a fire swept through the Command Module.
On This Day In 1967 The United States signed a space treaty with Russia. More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
On This Day In 1973 The Paris Agreement froze the status quo on the ground in South Vietnam. The agreement by the United States and North Vietnam included a ban on infiltration of arms or personnel to reinforce North Vietnamese troops in the South, as well as a ban on the use of Laotian or Cambodian territory for that purpose. The Paris Agreement provided for continued United States supply of the army of the Republic of Vietnam. Peace Accords were signed in Paris over events in Vietnam.
On This Day In 1977 The Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests.
On This Day In 1991 The New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV in Tampa.
On This Day In 1996 France detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb.
On This Day In 1999 Eamon Collins, author of the 1997 book "Killing Rage," was found beaten to death near Newry. He had been the IRAs intelligence officer from 1980-1985 and offended his associates with the book.
On This Day In 2001 Jennifer Capriati, American tennis star upset three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open title and her first Grand Slam tournament championship.
On This Day In 2003 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in Super Bowl XXXVII in the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.."
Anonymous
On This Day In 28 AD Nerva, Roman Emperor named Trajan, an army general, as his successor.
On This Day In 1457 Henry VII was born at Pembroke Castle, He was the first Tudor King of England. Died: 21 APR 1509, Richmond Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England. (Reign 1485-1509).
On This Day In 1547 King Henry VIII, King of England died aged 55; his sixth and last wife was Catherine Parr. He was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
On This Day In 1596 Sir Francis Drake, English navigator died off the coast of Panama of a fever, he was buried at sea aged 50.
On This Day In 1693 Anna Ivanovna Empress of all Russia was born. Empress of all Russia 1730-1740. Died :died of kidney disease at the age of 47 1740.
On This Day In 1706 John Baskerville, English font designer was born in Wolverley, Worcestershire. Died: 8 January 1775 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.
On This Day In 1757 Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupied Delhi and annexed the Punjab.
On This Day In 1784 The Earl of Aberdeen, British Prime Minister was born. Died: 14 December 1860. Term of Office (1852-1855) Tory.
On This Day In 1853 Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary was born in Havana.
On This Day In 1857 William Seward Burroughs, American invetor who invented the first practical adding and listing machine was born in Rochester New York. Died September 14, 1898
On This Day In 1871 France, under a provisional republican government, continued the war against Germany, but was forced to surrender in the Franco-Prussian War.
On This Day In 1902 The Carnegie Institute was founded in Washington DC. USA.
On This Day In 1909 The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
On This Day In 1912 Paul Jackson Pollock, American abstract artist was born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.
On This Day In 1915 The United States Coast Guard was founded by an Act of Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
On This Day In 1915 The first United States ship was lost in World War I, William P Frye she was carrying wheat to the United Kingdom.
On This Day In 1916 Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.
On This Day In 1921 Albert Einstein startled Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
On This Day In 1932 Japan attacked Shanghai, China, and declare martial law.
On This Day In 1933 Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist, was born. Best known for her works "The Style of Radical Will" and "Illness as a Metaphor."
On This Day In 1936 Alan Alda, American actor was born in New York, New York. Best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the American TV sitcom M*A*S*H.
On This Day In 1941 General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sacked a south Libyan oasis. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Matthew Henson received a joint medal from the American Congress as co-discoverer of the North Pole.
On This Day In 1945 Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Chiang Kai-shek renamed the Ledo-Burma Road the Stillwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stillwell.
On This Day In 1980 Six United States diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats.
On This Day In 1982 Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued United States Brigadier General James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigade.
On This Day In 1986 America's 25th space shuttle mission Challenger (10) STS-51-L (TDRS-2) exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members: Flight Commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee; Pilot Michael J. Smith; Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka; Judith A. Resnik; Gregory B. Jarvis; and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
On This Day In 1988 Canada's Supreme Court struck down the nation's restrictive abortion law.
On This Day In 1990 The San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV in New Orleans.
On This Day In 1996 The Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, AZ.
On This Day In 1996 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, died at aged 55.
On This Day In 2001 The Baltimore Ravens beat the New York Giants 34-17 in Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Fla.
On This Day In 2002 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish, author aged 94 died in Stockholm. Best known as the author of of "Pippi Longstocking".
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide
On This Day In 137 AD The Roman Emperor Marcus Didius Severus Julianus was born.
On This Day In 1779 British forces capture Augusta, GA American War of Independence.
On This Day In 1819 Sir Stanford Raffles landed on the island of Singapore.
On This Day In 1861 Kansas became the 34th State Of The Union. State
Capital
Topeka. USA.
On This Day In 1863 Union General Ulysses S Grant was named Commander of the Army of the West. American Civil War.
On This Day In 1927 Edward Abbey, American writer was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Died: 14 March 1989. Best known as the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang.
On This Day In 1945 The Battle of the Ardennes was completed. World War II.
On This Day In 1964 America's Apollo-Saturn-SA5, first block II Saturn launch was launched.
On This Day In 1995 The San Francisco 49ers beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX in Miami.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"
Elizabeth Barret Browning
On This Day In 1882 Franklin D Roosevelt 32nd president of the United States was born in Hyde Park New York. Term of office 1933 - 1945. Roosevelt was re-elected in 1940 for a unique third term. In 1944 he was elected for a fourth term. Died on April 12 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
On This Day In 1913 Percy Thrower, BBC TV gardening presenter was born.
On This Day In 1930 Gene Hackman, American actor was born in San Bernadino, California. Best known for his role as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection.
On This Day In 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
On This Day In 1945 A soviet submarine sunk the German hospital ship Wilhelm Gustloff with over 6.000 refugees from East Prussia, over 5.100 people were killed. This was the worst maritime disaster of all time. World War II.
On This Day In 1967 Bruce Seldon, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1995-1996 WBA).
On This Day In 1972 Soldiers from the British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, Derry, Ireland, near the Rossville flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of others. One wounded man later died from illness attributed to that shooting. This became known as Bloody Sunday.
On This Day In 1983 The Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII in Pasadena.
On This Day In 1994 The Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills 30-13 in Super Bowl XXVIII in Atlanta.
On This Day In 2000 The St Louis Rams beat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
William Blake
On This Day In 314 AD St Silvester I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
On This Day In 876 AD Charles became King of Italy.
On This Day In 1504 By the treaty of Lyons, the French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon, Spain.
On This Day In 1517 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer was born.
On This Day In 1560 Philip II, King of Spain married Elisabeth van Valois.
On This Day In 1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi Italian composer was born.
On This Day In 1601 Pieter de Bloot Dutch landscape painter was born.
On This Day In 1606 Guy Fawkes who was convicted of treason in the "Gunpowder Plot", was executed aged 35.
On This Day In 1788 Charles E Stuart, (Bonnie Prince) pretender to the English, died aged 67.
On This Day In 1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer was born in Lichtenthal. Best known as the composer of Unfinished Symphony.
On This Day In 1804 British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reached the island of Curaçao.
On This Day In 1849 The Corn Laws were abolished in Great Britain.
On This Day In 1865 The United States Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.
On This Day In 1866 Emil Strauss, German, writer was born. Best known for his work Naked Man.
On This Day In 1872 Zane Grey, American Western novelist was born. Best known as the writer of Riders of the Purple Sage.
On This Day In 1874 The infamous Jesse James gang robbed a train at Gads Hill MO.
On This Day In 1882 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina/choreographer was born in St Petersburg Russia.
On This Day In 1892 Eddie Cantor, American comedian was born in New York City NY.
On This Day In 1914 Jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champion was born. Champion: (1951-1952). Died: February 25, 1994.
On This Day In 1916 The Dutch Girl Guides was formed.
On This Day In 1921 Carol Channing, American actress was born in Seattle WA. Best known for her performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
On This Day In 1921 Mario Lanza, American actor/singer was born in Philadelphia PA. Best known for his performance in Great Caruso.
On This Day In 1926 Jean Simmons, English actress was born in London. Best known for her performance in the TV film Thorn Birds.
On This Day In 1929 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary was expelled from Russia to Turkey.
On This Day In 1931 Ernie "Mr Cub" Banks, legendary baseball hitter with the Chicago Cubs was born in Dallas, Texas.
On This Day In 1933 John Galsworthy, England, writer died aged 65. Best known as the writer of Forsythe Saga.
On This Day In 1940 Jessica Walter, America actress was born in Brooklyn NY. Best known for her perfomance in Play Misty For Me.
On This Day In 1941 Joe Louis became World Heavyweight Boxing Champion when he knock out Red Burman in round five.
On This Day In 1943 The German General Von Paulas surrendered at Stalingrad, Russia. Of the 280,000 Germans encircled 70,000 died, 42,000 evacuated, 91,000 surrendered. World War II.
On This Day In 1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) was postponed until June.
On This Day In 1944 American forces invaded Kwajalein Atoll. World War II.
On This Day In 1945 Eddie Slovik, became the firstt American serviceman to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
On This Day In 1946 Yugoslavia adopted it's new constitution so becoming a federal republic.
On This Day In 1947 Lynn Nolan Ryan, legendary New York Mets baseball pitcher was born in Refugio, Texas.
On This Day In 1954 Edwin H Armstrong, American FM radio inventor committed suicide aged 63.
On This Day In 1956 Johnny Rotten [John Lydon], rocker with the Sex Pistols was born.
On This Day In 1958 The United States launched Explorer 1, their first artificial satellite.
On This Day In 1961 America's 12th unmanned space probe MR-2 (Mercury Redstone 2) was launche from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Mercury Project.
On This Day In 1968 Nauru gained independence.
On This Day In 1971 America's Apollo 14 (AS-509) was launched. Landed on Moon 5 February 1971 Fra Mauro. Returned to Earth 9 February 1971. Crew: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, Edgar D. Mitchell.
On This Day In 1988 The Washington Redskins beat the Denver Broncos 42-10 in Super Bowl XXII in San Diego.
On This Day In 1993 The Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena.
On This Day In 1999 The Denver Broncos beat the Atlanta Braves 34-19 in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami.
Your Thought For Today Is:
"Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space."
Diana Black
Independence Day Nauru
