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Re: Events on this day
By: SimpsonsFan2000 Date: February 11, 2016, 3:45 pm
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Today is February 11th!
1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first
hospital in America.
1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal
to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the
coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
1812 - The term "gerrymandering" had its beginning when the
governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a
redistricting law that favored his party.
1858 - A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have seen
a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.
1878 - The first U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, was
formed.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the
independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1936 - Pumping began the process to build San Francisco's
Treasure Island.
1937 - General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile
Workers Union, which ended the current sit-down strike against
them.
1938 - "The Big Broadcast of 1938" was released.
1940 - NBC radio presented "The Chamber Music Society of Lower
Basin Street" for the first time.
1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command
the allied armies in Europe.
1945 - During World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. (Today in
World War II History)
1957 - The NHL Players Association was formed in New York City.
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a
stewardess by making her initial flight.
1960 - Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the
"Tonight Show" with four minutes left. He did this in response
to censors cutting out a joke from the show the night before.
1968 - The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially
opened in New York. This was the fourth Garden.
1972 - McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled
plans to publish an autobiography of Howard Hughes. The work
turned out to be fake.
1975 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a major
party in Britain when she was elected leader of the Conservative
Party.
1979 - Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned
to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his
followers.
1982 - ABC-TV’s presentation of "The Winds of War" concluded.
The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the
most-watched television program in history at the time.
1982 - France nationalized five groups of major industries and
39 banks.
1984 - The tenth Space Shuttle mission returned to Earth safely.
1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris became the first woman to be
consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1990 - In Tokyo, Japan, James "Buster" Douglas knocked out Mike
Tyson in the tenth round to win the heavyweight championship.
1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney
general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to
hold the position.
2000 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to
gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever
made.
2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland
after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin
decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.
2002 - The six stars on NBC's "Friends" signed a deal for $24
million each for the ninth and final season of the series.
2006 - In Texas, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally
shot and wounded a companion during a quail hunt.
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Re: Events on this day
By: SimpsonsFan2000 Date: February 12, 2016, 6:03 pm
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Today is February 12th!
1541 - The city of Santiago, Chile was founded.
1554 - Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with
treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine
days.
1733 - Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James
Oglethorpe.
1870 - In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.
1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask.
1879 - The first artificial ice rink opened in North America. It
was at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.
1880 - The National Croquet League was organized in
Philadelphia, PA.
1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to
be a national holiday.
1907 - A collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooler
resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident
occurred off New England's Block Island.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 - China's boy emperor Hsuan T'ung announced that he was
abdicating, ending the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty. Subsequently, the
Republic of China was established.
1915 - The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in
Washington, DC.
1918 - All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort
to conserve coal.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first
presidential political speech on radio.
1924 - "The Eveready Hour" became radio’s first sponsored
network program. The National Carbon Company was the first
sponsor of a network show.
1934 - The Export-Import Bank was incorporated.
1940 - Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio
play "The Adventures of Superman."
1968 - "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver was published for the
first time.
1971 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The
company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to
the company's founder.
1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the
U.S. to post metric distance signs.
1973 - American prisoners of war were released for the first
time during the Vietnam conflict.
1985 - Johnny Carson surprised his audience by shaving the beard
he had been wearing on "The Tonight Show."
1993 - In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger,
was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to
death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge declared that the presidential
line-item veto was unconstitutional.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate
on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and
obstruction of justice.
2001 - The space probe NEAR landed on the asteroid Eros. It was
the first time that any craft had landed on a small space rock.
2002 - Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his
constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S.
Congress about the collapse of Enron.
2002 - The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
began at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic was accused
of war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
2002 - Pakistan charged three men in connection with the
kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in
Karachi.
2002 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco and Franco Knie won a
defamation-of-character lawsuit against the Swiss magazine
"Facts." The case involved a photomontage created by the
magazine.
2003 - The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation
of international treaties. The complaint was sent to the
Security Council.
2004 - Mattel announced that "Barbie" and "Ken" were breaking
up. The dolls had met on the set of their first television
commercial together in 1961.
2013 - North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test.
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Re: Events on this day
By: SimpsonsFan2000 Date: February 13, 2016, 8:57 pm
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Today is February 13th!
1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the
fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the
Inquisition.
1741 - "The American Magazine," the first magazine in the U.S.,
was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1875 - Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to America’s first
quintuplets. All five of the baby boys died within two weeks.
1880 - Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison
Effect for the first time.
1889 - Norman Coleman became the first U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture.
1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by
Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor
of Germany and the U.S.
1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was
founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its
members.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality
of Switzerland.
1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard
Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son
of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for
the crimes.
1937 - The comic strip "Prince Valiant" appeared for the first
time.
1939 - Virginia Payne became a new character in NBC’s soap
opera, "The Carter’s of Elm Street". She played the part of Mrs.
Carter.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest,
Hungary, from the German army.
1945 - During World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the
German city of Dresden.
1947 - "Family Theatre" was heard for the first time on Mutual
radio.
1955 - Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior
figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by
U.S. air and artillery support.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary
of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding
the late Yuri Andropov.
1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high
of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading
session.
1990 - In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies
forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a
two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
1991 - Hundreds of Iraqis were killed by two laser-guided bombs
that destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad. U.S.
officials identified the facility as a military installation,
but Iraqi officials said it was a bomb shelter.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the
Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed
the telescope to see further into the universe.
1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average passed the 7,000 mark
for the first time. The day ended at 7,022.44.
1999 - A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in
southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic
strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
2001 - El Savador was hit with an earthquake that measured 6.6
on the Richter Scale. At least 400 people were killed.
2002 - In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh pled innocent to a
10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to
kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
2002 - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an
honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
2008 - Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing
drugs in testimony before Congress.
2008 - Hollywood writers ended a 100-day strike.
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Re: Events on this day
By: SimpsonsFan2000 Date: February 14, 2016, 2:29 pm
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Today is February 14th (Valentine's Day).
1778 - The Stars and Stripes was carried to a foreign port, in
France, for the first time. It was aboard the American ship
Ranger.
1803 - Moses Coates received a patent for the apple parer.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in
office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President
James Polk was the subject of the picture.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent
for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.
1889 - In Los Angeles, CA, oranges began their first trip to the
east.
1895 - Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being
Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London.
1899 - The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in
federal elections.
1900 - Russia imposed tighter imperial control over Finland in
response to an international petition for Finland's freedom.
1900 - In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts invaded Orange Free
State with 20,000 troops.
1903 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was
established.
1912 - The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned in
Groton, CT.
1912 - Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. The
first president of the organization was Maude Wood Park.
1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago,
IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
1932 - The U.S. won the first bobsled competition at the Winter
Olympic Games at Lake Placid, NY.
1940 - The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at
Marineland in Florida.
1945 - Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joined the United
Nations.
1946 - ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was
unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania,
was the world's first general purpose electronic computer.
1954 - The TV show "Letter to Loretta" changed its name to "The
Loretta Young Show." The show premiered on September 20, 1953.
1957 - Lionel Hampton’s only major musical work, "King David,"
made its debut at New York’s Town Hall.
1961 - Lawrencium, element 103, was first produced in Berkely,
CA.
1962 - U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the
White House on television.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school,
male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports
Illustrated".
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National
Basketball Association (NBA) record as he reached a career high
of 20,884 points after seven seasons.
1968 - The fourth Madison Square Gardens opened.
1979 - Twenty-year-old rookie, Don Maloney, of the New York
Rangers, scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It
came on his first NHL shot.
1979 - Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was
kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists. He was killed in a
shootout between his abductors and police.
1980 - Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS
Evening News."
1983 - A 6-year-old boy became the first person to receive a
heart and liver transplants in the same operation.
1985 - Cable News Network (CNN) reporter Jeremy Levin was freed.
He had been being held in Lebanon by extremists.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill
Salman Rushdie because of his novel "The Satanic Verses."
1989 - The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was
placed into orbit around Earth.
1989 - Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the
government of India. The court-ordered settlement was a result
of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery began a series
of spacewalks that were required to overhaul the Hubble Space
Telescope.
1998 - U.S. authorities officially announced that Eric Rudolph
was a suspect in a bombing of an abortion clinic in Alabama.
2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan
bill. The bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate, would ban millions
of unregulated money that goes to the national political
parties.
2002 - Sylvester Stallone filed a lawsuit against Kenneth Starr.
The suit alleged that Starr had given bad advice about selling
Planet Hollywood stock.
2003 - In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting
motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art
show. The plate was on sale for $12,400.
2005 - The video-sharing website YouTube was activated.
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