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08-25-2016, 01:00 PM | #226 |
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1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. 1543 The first Europeans, and the first firearms, arrive in Japan. 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1894 Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. 1916 The United States National Park Service is created. 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. 1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn. 1989 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time. 1991 Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. 1994 - Jimmy Buffett crashed his Grumman G-44 Widgeon seaplane on take-off in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Buffett swam away from the wreckage. 2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so. Births 1530 Ivan the Terrible; 1819 Allan Pinkerton (Pinkerton National Detective Agency); 1836 Bret Harte; 1909 Ruby Keeler, Michael Rennie ('Klaatu' in The Day The Earth Stood Still); 1916 Van Johnson; 1917 Mel Ferrer; 1918 Leonard Bernstein♪ ♫; 1919 George Wallace; 1921 Monty Hall; 1927 Althea Gibson; 1930 Sean Connery (woman slapper); 1931 Regis Philbin; 1933 Patrick F. McManus; 1933 Tom Skerritt; 1938 David Canary (All My Children, Bonanza); 1937 Virginia Wolff; 1939 John Badham; 1943 Harry Manfredini♪ ♫; 1944 Anthony Heald (the old friend Hannibal Lecter was going to have for dinner at the end of The Silence of the Lambs); 1949 John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Gene Simmons(KISS); 1950 Willy DeVille♪ ♫(Mink DeVille); 1951 Rob Halford♪ ♫(Judas Priest, Fight); 1954 Elvis Costello♪ ♫; 1958 Tim Burton; 1961 Billy Ray Cyrus♪ ♫; 1962 Vivian Campbell; 1964 Blair Underwood; 1968 Rachael Ray; 1970 Jo Dee Messina♪ ♫; 1976 Alexander Skarsgεrd ('Tarzan' in The Legend of Tarzan, son of actor Stellen Skarsgεrd); 1987 Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) Deaths 79 Pliny the Elder; 1819 James Watt; 1822 William Herschel; 1867 Michael Faraday; 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche; 1908 Henri Becquerel; 1945 John Birch (John Birch Society); 1956 Alfred Kinsey; 1967 Paul Muni; 1984 Truman Capote; 1988 Art Rooney (founded the Pittsburgh Steelers); 2000 Frederick C. Bock (namesake of Bockscar, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan), Allen Woody(Allman Bros); 2001 Aaliyah♪ ♫; 2009 Ted Kennedy; 2012 Neil Armstrong
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Today is Women's Equality Day in the United States. 1346 Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crιcy. 1498 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietΰ. 1768 Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour. 1791 John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat. 1883 The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage. 1920 The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. 1970 The then-new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. 1980 John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, United States. The FBI inadvertently detonated the bomb during disarming. 1987 - Sonny Bono, who once said that he never voted until he was 53, announced that he was running for mayor of Palm Springs, California. He won the election in 1988 and went on to win a seat in Congress in 1996. 1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade. 2004 - Singer Laura Branigan died of a brain aneurysm. She had had a 1982 US No.2 & UK No.6 single with Gloria and a 1984 US No.4 & UK No.5 with Self Control. She had also played Janis Joplin in the US musical Love, Janis. 2015 Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia. Births 1676 Robert Walpole; 1740 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier; 1743 Antoine Lavoisier; 1845 Mary Ann Nichols (victim of Jack The Ripper); 1898 Peggy Guggenheim; 1909 Jim Davis ('Jock Ewing' on Dallas); 1910 Mother Teresa; 1935 Geraldine Ferraro; 1940 Don LaFontaine (voice-over artist); 1944 Maureen Tucker(The Velvet Underground); 1945 Tom Ridge (1st Secretary of Homeland Security); 1949 Leon Redbone♪ ♫; 1952 Michael Jeter; 1952 Will Shortz (crossword puzzle creator); 1960 Branford Marsalis♪ ♫; 1966 Shirley Manson♪ ♫(Garbage); 1970 Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly); 1980 Macaulay Culkin, Chris Pine; 1985 Brian Kelley♪ ♫(Florida-Georgia Line) Deaths 1930 Lon Chaney; 1974 Charles Lindbergh; 1977 H. A. Rey (created Curious George); 1978 Charles Boyer; 1980 Tex Avery (created the characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developed Porky Pig, & Chilly Willy); 1986 Ted Knight; 2004 Laura Branigan (Gloria); 2009 Dominick Dunne
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08-27-2016, 01:02 PM | #228 |
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1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington. 1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War. 1859 – Edwin Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, resulting in the Pennsylvania oil rush, the first oil boom in the United States. 1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths. 1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change. 1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing an estimated 1,000-2,000 people. 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. 1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors on the Mexican-American border in Arizona, in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft. 1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre. 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. 1967 - British music entrepreneur and the manager of The Beatles, Brian Epstein was found dead, locked in a bedroom at his London home. A coroner's inquest concluded that Epstein died from an overdose of the sleeping pill Carbitrol. 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. 1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured. 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed when the helicopter he was flying in, hit a man-made ski slope while trying to navigate through dense fog. Vaughan had played a show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin with Robert Cray & His Memphis Horns, and Eric Clapton. Vaughan was informed by a member of Clapton's crew that three seats were open on a helicopter returning to Chicago with Clapton's crew, it turned out there was only one seat left; Vaughan requested it from his older brother, Jimmie, who obliged. Three members of Eric Clapton's entourage were also killed. 1992 - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to The Beatles song 'A Day In The Life' from Sgt. Pepper sold in an auction at Sotheby's London for $100,000 (£56,600). The lyrics were put up for sale again in March 2006 by Bonhams in New York. Sealed bids were opened on 7 March 2006 and offers started at about $2 million. The lyric sheet was auctioned again by Sotheby's in June 2010 when it was purchased by an anonymous American buyer who paid $1,200,000 (£810,000). 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead. 2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage. Births 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin (15th VPOTUS); 1865 – Charles G. Dawes (30th VPOTUS); 1874 – Carl Bosch (Haber–Bosch process, "On average, one-half of the nitrogen in a human body comes from synthetically fixed sources, the product of a Haber–Bosch plant."); 1877 – Charles Rolls (yeah, that Rolls); 1890 – Man Ray; 1896 – Lιon Theremin (invented the Theremin); 1899 – C. S. 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08-28-2016, 03:35 PM | #229 |
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There are 125 days remaining in 2016. There are 118 days til Christmas. 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. 1789 William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus. 1830 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new steam locomotive, Tom Thumb, races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads. The horse won the race. 1845 The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. 1859 A massive solar storm began, causing a coronal mass ejection to strike the Earth's magnetosphere that generated aurorae that were visible in the middle latitudes. Known as the Carrington Event. 1862 American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30. 1898 Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola". 1937 Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. 1955 Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement. 1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech. 1963 Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights. 1964 The Philadelphia race riot begins. 1968 Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. 1988 Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. 1990 Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. 1993 The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. Births 1728 John Stark (no relation to Ned, Arya, Sansa, Rob, Bran, or Rickon); 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Faust); 1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton; 1831 Lucy Webb Hayes (20th FLOTUS); 1899 Charles Boyer; 1921 Nancy Kulp ('Miss Hathaway' on The Beverly Hillbillies); 1925 Billy Grammer, Donald O'Connor; 1929 Roxie Roker(The Jeffersons, Lenny Kravitz's mother); 1930 Ben Gazzara; 1942 Sterling Morrison(The Velvet Underground); 1943 David Soul; 1952 Rita Dove; 1956 Luis Guzmαn; 1957 Rick Rossovich (Top Gun); 1957 Ai Weiwei; 1958 Scott Hamilton; 1961 Jennifer Coolidge('Stifler's Mom' in American Pie movie series, Two Broke Girls); 1965 Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1), Shania Twain♪ ♫; 1969 Jack Black♪ ♫; 1969 Jason Priestley; 1982 LeAnn Rimes♪ ♫; 1986 Armie Hammer ('Illya Kuryakin' in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2013) Deaths 1784 Junνpero Serra; 1903 Frederick Law Olmsted; 1987 John Huston; 1988 Max Shulman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis); 2007 Hilly Kristal (founded CBGB); 2013 Edmund B. Fitzgerald (namesake of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald)
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08-29-2016, 01:28 PM | #230 |
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708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). 1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. 1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. 1842 – Signing of the Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War. 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway. It is still in operation. 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded. 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. The still-under-construction bridge would collapse again in 1916, the two disasters claiming a total of 88 lives. 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans (the last "wild" Indian), emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City. 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there. 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. 1977 - Three people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis Presley's body. As a result, his remains would be later moved to Graceland. 1992 - U2 became only the second act ever (Billy Joel being the first) to play Yankee Stadium in New York City, during their sold out Zoo TV tour. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage. 77-year-old Fats Domino was rescued from the flooding in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. He had earlier told his agent that he planned to remain in his home despite the order to evacuate. 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. 2009 - The Los Angeles coroner confirmed Michael Jackson's death was homicide, primarily caused by the powerful anaesthetic Propofol. The singer suffered a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home in June, aged 50. The report said Propofol and the sedative Lorazepam were the "primary drugs responsible for Jackson's death", but four other drugs were also found. Births 1632 – John Locke (not the one on Lost, this one was from a much bigger island); 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; 1876 – Charles F. Kettering (founded Delco Electronics); 1915 – Ingrid Bergman; 1917 – Isabel Sanford ('Weezy' on The Jeffersons); 1920 – Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker♪ ♫; 1922 – Richard Blackwell; 1923 – Richard Attenborough; 1924 – Dinah Washington♪ ♫; 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman♪ ♫; 1936 – John McCain; 1939 – Joel Schumacher; 1940 – James Brady, Gary Gabelich(driver of the rocket car The Blue Flame); 1941 – Robin Leach; 1945 – Harry S. Morgan (porn actor, director, producer), Chris Copping(Procol Harum); 1958 – Michael Jackson♪ ♫; 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay; 1959 – Chris Hadfield (Canuck astronaut); 1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello♪ ♫; 1971 – Carla Gugino Deaths 1533 – Atahualpa; 1769 – Edmond Hoyle ("According To Hoyle"); 1877 – Brigham Young; 1930 – William Archibald Spooner (namesake of 'Spoonerism'); 1931 – David T. Abercrombie (co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch); 1946 – Adolphus Busch III; 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III; 1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (Leopold & Loeb); 1976 - Jimmy Reed♪ ♫; 1982 – Ingrid Bergman; 1987 – Archie Campbell (Hee Haw), Lee Marvin; 2007 – Richard Jewell (falsely accused Olympic Park Bombing suspect); 2011 – David "Honeyboy" Edwards♪ ♫; 2013 – Bruce C. Murray (co-founded The Planetary Society); 2015 – Wayne Dyer
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August 30
1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day. 1813 Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek of the "Red Sticks" faction kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama. 1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded. 1836 The city of Houston, Texas is founded by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. 1918 Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces. 1949 - Hank Williams went into Herzog Studio in Cincinnati to record 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'. Williams wrote the song originally intending that the words be spoken, rather than sung. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard. 1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. 1963 The MoscowWashington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. 1992 The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities. 1995 - Carly Simon and James Taylor performed live together in front of 10,000 fans on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. It was the first time they appeared live on the same stage since 1979. 2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her. Births 1797 Mary Shelley; 1896 Raymond Massey; 1906 Joan Blondell; 1908 Fred MacMurray; 1912 Nancy Wake (genuine badass); 1918 Ted Williams; 1919 Kitty Wells♪ ♫; 1926 Daryl Gates; 1927 Bill Daily (I Dream Of Jeannie); 1930 Warren Buffett ($$$); 1935 John Phillips♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas); 1937 Bruce McLaren; 1941 Ben Jones ('Cooter' on The Dukes of Hazzard); 1943 Robert Crumb (created Fritz The Cat); 1948 Lewis Black; 1950 Antony Gormley (sculptor Angel of the North); 1951 Timothy Bottoms; 1954 David Paymer; 1956 Frank Conniff (MST3K); 1963 Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Fantastic Four), Paul Oakenfold♪ ♫(dj); 1972 Cameron Diaz; 1973 Lisa Ling; 1982 Andy Roddick Deaths 1879 John Bell Hood; 1938 Max Factor, Sr.; 1961 Charles Coburn; 1968 William Talman ('District Attorney Burger' on Perry Mason); 1979 Jean Seberg; 1993 Richard Jordan; 1995 Sterling Morrison(The Velvet Underground); 2003 Charles Bronson; 2006 Glenn Ford; 2015 Wes Craven
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Today is National Trail Mix Day in the United States. 1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months. 1803 – Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh at 11 in the morning. 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta. 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon. 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit. 1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. 1968 – Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. It was a truly wicked bit of googly. 1990, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder sang 'Amazing Grace' at a memorial service held for guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan who had been killed in a helicopter crash 4 days earlier. 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. 2005 – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. Births 12 – Caligula; 1870 – Maria Montessori (Montessori schools); 1897 – Fredric March; 1903 – Arthur Godfrey; 1905 – Sanford Meisner; 1908 – William Saroyan; 1914 – Richard Basehart; 1920 – G. D. Spradlin; 1924 – Buddy Hackett; 1928 – James Coburn; 1931 – Noble Willingham; 1937 – Bobby Parker; 1939 – Jerry Allison(Buddy Holly & The Crickets); 1942 – Isao Aoki; 1945 – Van Morrison♪ ♫, Bob Welch(Fleetwood Mac); 1948 - Rudolf Schenker(The Scorpions); 1949 – Richard Gere; 1962 – Dee Bradley Baker (voice of 'Klaus', the goldfish, on American Dad); 1970 – Debbie Gibson; 1972 – Chris Tucker ("You got knocked the fuck out, man!") Deaths 1422 – Henry V of England; 1867 – Charles Baudelaire; 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols (Jack The Ripper's first confirmed victim); 1948 – Billy Laughlin ('Froggy' on Our Gang); 1969 – Rocky Marciano; 1973 – John Ford; 1979 – Sally Rand; 1997 – Dodi Fayed, Diana, Princess of Wales; 2002 – Lionel Hampton; 2013 – David Frost; 2014 – Jimi Jamison♪ ♫(Survivor)
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09-01-2016, 02:08 PM | #233 |
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Let's try this one more goddamn time, nothing like killing a fucking hour and a half twice.
September 1 Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day. Today is Wattle Day in Australia, marking the first day of Spring. 717 – Siege of Constantinople: The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire. 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancι, King Henry VIII of England. 1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington. 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. 1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota. 1914 – The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published. 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power. 1972 – In Reykjavνk, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h). 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald. 1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. 2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia. Births 1653 – Johann Pachelbel; 1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck; 1866 – James J. Corbett; 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs; 1920 – Richard Farnsworth; 1922 – Yvonne De Carlol; 1923 – Rocky Marciano; 1928 – George Maharis; 1931 – Boxcar Willie; 1933 – Ann Richards; 1933 – Conway Twitty; 1937 – Al Geiberger; 1938 – Alan Dershowitz; 1939 – Lily Tomlin; 1946 – Barry Gibb; 1950 – Phil McGraw; 1970 – Padma Lakshmi Deaths 1557 – Jacques Cartier; 1838 – William Clark; 1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti; 2005 – R. L. Burnside; 2008 – Jerry Reed; 2012 – Hal David
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[Thanks for always posting these.]
Wattle day? They needed this. |
09-01-2016, 05:07 PM | #235 |
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That second effort was somewhat condensed from the first one.
And you're welcome. Additions and corrections are always welcome. And encouraged.
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September 2
Today is Victory Over Japan Day (V-J Day) in the United States, marking the end of World War II. 1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including St Paul's Cathedral, and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 citizens. 1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe. 1789 The United States Department of the Treasury is founded. 1806 A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457. 1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service. 1864 American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign. 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner. 1901 Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. 1945 World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1963 CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 1984 Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia. 1987 In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. Births 1661 Georg Bφhm; 1675 William Somervile; 1850 Albert Spalding (co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company); 1901 Adolph Rupp (coached the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team for 42 years, namesake of Rupp Arena); 1911 William F. Harrah (founded Caesars Entertainment Corporation); 1914 Tom Glazer♪ ♫; 1915 Meinhardt Raabe (Munchkin); 1917 Cleveland Amory; 1925 Hugo Montenegro♪ ♫; 1929 Hal Ashby; 1934 Grady Nutt (minister & humorist, Hee Haw); 1935 D. Wayne Lukas (horse trainer); 1937 Peter Ueberroth; 1938 Mary Jo Catlett; 1946 Billy Preston♪ ♫; 1946 Dan White (Harvey Milk's & George Moscone's assassin); 1948 Terry Bradshaw, Christa McAuliffe; 1951 Michael Gray ('Billy Batson' on Shazam!), Mark Harmon ('Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs' on NCIS); 1952 Jimmy Connors; 1957 Steve Porcaro(Toto); 1964 Keanu Reeves; 1965 Lennox Lewis; 1966 Salma Hayek Deaths 1910 Henri Rousseau; 1964 Alvin C. York; 1969 Ho Chi Minh; 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien; 1978 Fred G. Meyer (founded Fred Meyer); 2005 Bob Denver (Gilligan's Island)
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