A Day in History!

[paracarl44]

March 29, 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark.

 

[milagros317]

March 30, 1981
POTUS is shot.
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1992 Arthur Ashe announces that he has contracted AIDS from one of his previous heart surgeries.

 

[milagros317]

A personal note this time:
On April 9, 1918, in what is now East Harlem (on 114[sup]th[/sup] Street east of Fifth Avenue), my father was born at home.
He would have been 99 years old today. (He died of emphysema in 1997.)

 

[paracarl44]

April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater and would die the following morning.

 

[milagros317]

April 14, 1912
The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg just before midnight.
It would sink with great loss of life within hours. 🙁

 

[silvertickler]

As Milagros indicated, at 2:20am on this day in 1912, RMS Titanic, just 2 hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg, sank below the North Atlantic ocean. The total loss of life was 1503 souls. This disaster would change maritime travel and international laws forever. (Standardized use of 'S.O.S', established International Ice Patrol, assured ships contained enough lifeboats to server ship's entire passenger capacity).*

Also on this date, thanks to the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the Untied States, income taxes are due. This date can be shifted after the 15th (the 18th this year) when the 15th falls on a Sunday or Holiday, as deemed by the IRS and Congress.

*Titanic history is a hobby of mine, so apologies to Milagros for the sorta repeat ^.^;

 

[milagros317]

April 16, 1947
A giant explosion occurs during the loading of fertilizer onto the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, on this day in 1947. 581 people lost their lives and thousands were injured when the ship was literally blown to bits.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened.

 

[milagros317]

April 25, 1859
The British began construction of the Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date Adolf Hitler died in Germany.

 

[milagros317]

On April 30, 1939, the New York World’s Fair opens in New York City. The opening ceremony, which featured speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and New York Governor Herbert Lehman, ushered in the first day of television broadcasting in New York.

 

[paracarl44]

May 1, 1982 The World's Fair opened in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

[milagros317]

In the early morning hours on May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly decade-long international manhunt.

The raid began around 1 a.m. local time, when 23 U.S. Navy SEALs in two Black Hawk helicopters descended on the compound in Abbottabad, a tourist and military center north of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. One of the helicopters crash-landed into the compound but no one aboard was hurt. During the raid, which lasted approximately 40 minutes, five people, including bin Laden and one of his adult sons, were killed by U.S. gunfire. No Americans were injured in the assault. Afterward, bin Laden’s body was flown by helicopter to Afghanistan for official identification, then buried at an undisclosed location in the Arabian Sea less than 24 hours after his death, in accordance with Islamic practice.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1994 Queen Elizabeth II & French President Francois Mitterrand attended the opening of The Channel Tunnel connecting the countries of England & France.

 

[paracarl44]

TODAY is VE Day!

On this date President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that all of Nazi's troops had surrendered.

 

[milagros317]

May 8, 1984
The USSR announces that they will boycott the Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1973 the first space station called Skylab was launched.

 

[milagros317]

May 15, 1972
Governor George Wallace is shot, ending his campaign for POTUS:

During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate, is shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer. Three others were wounded, and Wallace was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. The next day, while fighting for his life in a hospital, he won major primary victories in Michigan and Maryland. However, Wallace remained in the hospital for several months, bringing his third presidential campaign to an irrevocable end.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 1917 John F. Kennedy was born.

He would be 100 years old today if he had lived.

 

[milagros317]

At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 1935 Babe Ruth announced that he would retire as a baseball player.

 

[milagros317]

June 3, 1800

John Adams, second President of the United States, becomes the first President to reside in Washington, DC, on June 3, 1800.

 

[paracarl44]

TODAY IS D DAY!

On this day in 1944 Allied troops invaded the shores of France on the first push into Nazi Germany held land.

 

[milagros317]

On this day in 1944 Allied troops invaded the shores of France on the first push into Nazi Germany held land.

You beat me to it, Paracarl. My Uncle Bernie considered landing at Omaha Beach that day to be the most important thing that he ever did.