A Day in History!

[milagros317]

January 2, 1905: During the Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur, the Russian naval base in China, falls to Japanese naval forces under Admiral Heihachiro Togo. It was the first in a series of defeats that by June turned the tide of the imperial conflict irrevocably against Russia.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

 

[milagros317]

January 3, 1777: General George Washington wins the Battle of Princeton against the British forces under General Howe.

40 Patriots and 275 British soldiers died during the Battle of Princeton. After the defeat, the Howe brothers (General William and Admiral Richard) chose to leave most of New Jersey to Washington. Instead of marshalling their significant manpower to retake New Jersey, they concentrated all of their forces between New Brunswick and the Atlantic coast.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1933 construction began on The Golden Gate Bridge.

 

[milagros317]

January 5, 1982: A series of landslides near San Francisco, California, kills up to 33 people and closes the Golden Gate Bridge. In all, an amazing 18,000 different landslides took place in the San Francisco Bay Area following a very heavy rain storm.

 

[paracarl44]

ON this date in 1964 Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States, issued a report that smoking is hazardous to your health.

 

[Mitchell]

January 20, 2009.

Barack Obama is sworn in as the first African American President of the United States.

(Sorry, mils).

The thread just says.

"A day in history".

Had it said.

"On this day in history".

I would not have posted what I did.

Honestly, from what you are saying.. the topic of the thread should be changed to. "On this day in history", for whatever day it is on the day the person is posting in the thread.

 

[milagros317]

January 20, 2009.

Barack Obama is sworn in as the first African American President of the United States.

You should wait to post this on January 20 of this year.

Posted on January 12, 2018:

January 12, 1904: Henry Ford sets a land-speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Michigan’s Lake St. Clair. He was driving a four-wheel vehicle, dubbed the “999,” with a wooden chassis but no body or hood. Ford’s record was broken within a month at Ormond Beach, Florida, by a driver named William K. Vanderbilt.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1954 the USS Nautilus was launched in Groton, Connecticut with Mamie Eisenhower christening the submarine.

 

[milagros317]

January 21, 1738: Ethan Allen, future Revolutionary War hero and key founder of the Republic of Vermont, is born in Litchfield, Connecticut.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 1973 President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.

 

[milagros317]

January 23, 1968: The U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo is seized by North Korean naval vessels and charged with spying and violating North Korean territorial waters. Negotiations to free the 83-man crew of the U.S. ship dragged on for nearly a year, damaging the credibility of and confidence in the foreign policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration.

 

[paracarl44]

German zeppelins bombed the city of Paris in WWI on this day in 1916.

 

[milagros317]

January 29, 1843: William McKinley, became the 25th American president and the first to ride in an automobile, is born in Niles, Ohio. McKinley served in the White House from 1897 to 1901, a time when the American automotive industry was in its infancy. During his presidency, McKinley (who died from an assassin’s bullet in September 1901) took a drive in a Stanley Steamer, a steam-engine-powered auto built in the late 1890s by brothers Francis and Freelan Stanley. The Stanley Motor Carriage Company produced a number of steam-powered vehicles before going out of business in the early 1920s, after being unable to compete with the rise of less expensive gas-powered cars.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1998 Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

 

[milagros317]

February 6, 1952: After a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, who was in Kenya at the time of her father’s death, became Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and and Northern Ireland.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

 

[milagros317]

February 10, 1861: Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi who served as U.S. secretary of war in the 1850s, receives word he has been selected president of the new Confederate States of America. Delegates at the Confederacy’s constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama, chose him for the job.

Davis was at his plantation, Brierfield, pruning rose bushes with his wife Varina when a messenger arrived from nearby Vicksburg, Mississippi.The presidency was not a position Davis wanted, but he accepted it out of a sense of duty to his new country. Varina later wrote of her husband’s reaction to the news: ”Reading that telegram he looked so grieved that I feared some evil had befallen our family. After a few minutes he told me like a man might speak of a sentence of death.”

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 2007 Senator Barack Obama announced that he would run for President.

 

[milagros317]

February 10, 1962: American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years earlier. The two men were brought to separate sides of the Glienicker Bridge, which connects East and West Berlin across Lake Wannsee. As the spies waited, negotiators talked in the center of the bridge where a white line divided East from West. Finally, Powers and Abel were waved forward and crossed the border into freedom at the same moment–8:52 a.m., Berlin time.

 

[paracarl44]

On this date in 1933 The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

 

[milagros317]

February 16, 1878: Strongly supported by western mining interests and farmers, the Bland-Allison Act—which provided for a return to the minting of silver coins—becomes the law of the land.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 1959 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after Batista was overthrown.

 

[milagros317]

February 16, 1923: In Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

 

[paracarl44]

On this day in 2001 Dale Earnhardt was killed in a race at the Daytona 500.