What happened the day you were born?

[Bugman]

Kind of a slow news days for me.🙂




January 8, 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt.
January 8, 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak.
January 8, 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open.
January 8, 1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting.

 

[Perduabo]

1954 - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
1141 Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

 

[Bugman]

1954 - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
1141 Battle of Samarkand: Belushi defeats Islams
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

I was thinking about the specific day,but i like your idea better.😀 Lets run with it.

 

[milagros317]

Not much on the actual day:
* 03/17/1950 - Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
* 03/17/1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced

Prior to 1800:

# 432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
# 455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
# 1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
# 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
# 1521 - Magelhaes lands on Homohon
# 1526 - French king Fran‡ois I freed from Spain
# 1537 - French troops invade Flanders
# 1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
# 1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
# 1672 - England declares war on Netherlands
# 1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
# 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
# 1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
# 1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
# 1757 - Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
# 1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
# 1766 - Britain repeals Stamp Act
# 1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

19th Century:
# 1800 - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
# 1804 - Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres
# 1824 - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
# 1833 - Phoenix Society forms (NY)
# 1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
# 1842 - Indians land in Ohio, a 12ý-mile area in Upper Sandusky
# 1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
# 1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
# 1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
# 1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
# 1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
# 1861 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
# 1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities)
# 1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
# 1870 - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
# 1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
# 1876 - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
# 1876 - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
# 1877 - Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng
# 1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
# 1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
# 1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
# 1894 - US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
# 1897 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
# 1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die

20th Century:
# 1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
# 1901 - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
# 1902 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
# 1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
# 1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
# 1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
# 1908 - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
# 1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1910 - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
# 1912 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
# 1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
# 1917 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
# 1918 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
# 1918 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
# 1919 - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
# 1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
# 1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
# 1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
# 1924 - Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
# 1924 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
# 1924 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
# 1926 - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
# 1926 - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
# 1926 - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
# 1927 - US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
# 1929 - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
# 1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
# 1931 - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
# 1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
# 1934 - Dollfuss, Mussolini & G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
# 1935 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
# 1941 - National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
# 1942 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
# 1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
# 1943 - Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
# 1943 - F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC
# 1944 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
# 1945 - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
# 1950 - Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
# 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
# 1951 - Govt of Drees takes power
# 1951 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch
# 1953 - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
# 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
# 1953 - WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
# 1953 - WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
# 1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr‚al
# 1956 - 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
# 1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
# 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
# 1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
# 1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
# 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
# 1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
# 1960 - WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
# 1961 - NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
# 1961 - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
# 1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
# 1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
# 1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
# 1965 - Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
# 1966 - South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
# 1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
# 1968 - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations
# 1968 - Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
# 1969 - Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
# 1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
# 1970 - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
# 1970 - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
# 1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
# 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
# 1973 - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
# 1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
# 1975 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
# 1976 - Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
# 1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
# 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
# 1977 - Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
# 1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
# 1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
# 1978 - Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
# 1979 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
# 1979 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
# 1979 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
# 1979 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
# 1981 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
# 1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
# 1983 - 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
# 1983 - 9th People's Choice Awards
# 1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
# 1985 - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
# 1986 - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
# 1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
# 1987 - Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
# 1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
# 1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
# 1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
# 1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
# 1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
# 1990 - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
# 1991 - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
# 1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
# 1991 - John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC
# 1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
# 1991 - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
# 1992 - "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs
# 1992 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
# 1992 - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
# 1992 - De Klerk wins a white only referendum
# 1992 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
# 1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
# 1993 - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
# 1994 - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
# 1994 - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
# 1994 - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark
# 1995 - British œ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
# 1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
# 1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
# 1996 - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
# 1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs
# 1996 - Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
# 1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
# 1996 - Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
# 1996 - Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena
# 1996 - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
# 1997 - CNN begins spanish broadcasts
# 1998 - USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal

 

[natural tickler]

from what Mom told me, February 16, 1971

one huge snow blizzard happened, still was able to get to the hospital though

 

[Artoo]

March 6th, 1987 - Zeebrugge Disaster: A cross-channel ferry capsizes outside the harbor off Zeebrugge, Belgium; 180 drown.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm

 

[RobAce]

The doctor slapped me, and I was arrested the first time for assault when I punched his face in response, then I took the nurse home with me and keyed the doctor's car.

Rob

 

[chicago]

May 24th, 1987

Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indianapolis 500

So basically it was a really boring day in history.

 

[slap'n'ticklee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7th

 

[goddess_nemesis]

On November 12, 1986:

1. Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously.
   
2. France performs nuclear test.
   
3. For the first time in NBA history, both head coaches were absent from the game. K.C. Jones and Don Nelson were both too sick to coach the Boston-Milwaukee game. It became the 44th straight home victory for the Boston Celtics, as they beat the Milwaukee Bucks 124-116. So who needs a coach!
   
4. Australian singer John Farnham releases the album Whispering Jack, which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.

On November 12, throughout history:

• 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
• 1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• 1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
• 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• 2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

 

[MasterPaladin]

mom got a lot thinner I was 9lbs 14 oz

 

[MasterPaladin]

Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Amending the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. January 30, 1954

 

[JustPeechy]

CASSIUS CLAY BEATS SONNY LISTON
Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies
My parents asked one another, what were we thinking???

 

[badreligion]

Iron Maiden was in the middle of their Somewhere On Tour

 

[Illtcklu]

.......................that says it all I think.......................

 

[CarolinaTickler]

1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1938 - The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.

1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.

1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.

1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.

1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.

1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched.

2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.

Yeah my Birthday was kind of a historic day I guess.

 

[MasterPaladin]

My mom got a lot thinner

 

[xSamanthax]

Oh this is fun! I copied from Wiki, but edited it down.

July 20th.

1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
^ This is interesting because I do believe Gen. Hood to be in my mother's family line. Would have to double check though.

1877 - Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.

1881 - Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota

1903 - Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.

1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.

1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.

1934 - Labor unrest in the U.S., as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
^ What's with the riots???

1942 - World War II: The first unit of the Women's Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa.

1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

1944 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the Democratic nomination for the fourth and final time at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
^more rioting!

1948 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.

1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

1954 - At Geneva, Switzerland, an armistice is signed that ends fighting in Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th parallel.

1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.

1968 - Special Olympics founded.

1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands the first man on the Moon.
^One year before I was born.

1973 - Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.

1973 - First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The National Black Network (NBN) begins operations.

1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.

1976 - Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.

1982 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.

1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.

2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.


And I share a birthday with:
Alexander the Great
Gregor Mendel
Sir Edmund Hillary
Senator Larry Craig (roflmao)
Carlos Santana
Chris Cornell
Stone Gossard
Gisele Bundchen

 

[MasterPaladin]

1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands the first man on the Moon.
^One year before I was born.

I watched it on tv and took pictures off the screen and I still have them somewhere lol

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

October 4, 1985

1537 The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen

1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

1830 Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.

1854 Honest Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

1864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms

1918 An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.

1957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS

1970 Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose. She was 27.

1985 Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.

1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

1985 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley

 

[Bugman]

January 8 1955.

624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan.
794 Church at Lindisfarne, England destroyed by Northmen.
871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army.
1198 Lotario di Segni becomes Pope Innocentius III.
1214 Earl Ferrand van Flanders drops association with France.
1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of
Brittany to keep duchy for the crown.
1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews.
1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg.
1716 Mob leader "Sjako" arrested.
1745 England, Austria, Neth & Saxon signs anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance.
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling.
1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address.
1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed.
1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi. Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
1806 Cape colony becomes English colony.Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon.
1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes.
1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended.
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established.
1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, NJ.
Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out.
1842 King Willem II signs rights of Technical Hague court at Delf.
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled.
1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif.
1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC.
1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto.
1870 US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins.
1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold Ii's police & Henry Morton Stanley.
1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz.
1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine.
1894 A Charlois discovers asteroids #379 Huenna & #380 Fiducia.
Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire.
1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #554 Peraga & #556 Phyllis.
1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #660 Crescentia.
1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager.
1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy.
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I.
1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam.
1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas.
1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia.
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies.
CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC.
1930 Belgium Princess Marie Jos‚ marries Italian's crown prince Umberto.
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1152 Pawona.
1931 Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses.
1932 Ratification of present SF City Charter.
1934 Cut Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam.
H L Giclas discovers asteroid #3177.
1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.
1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns.
1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes.
1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State.
Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game.
1948 M Laugier discovers asteroid #2068 Dangreen.
Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dike for treason.
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda.
1952 Jordan adopts constitution.
1953 Ren‚ Mayer forms French govt.
1954 S Arend discovers asteroid #1717 Arlon.
1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt. Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak WUNC. TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken.
Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 &
stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic
1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1963 D Sjostakovitsj' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan. President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1965 Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass)
Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History.
1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks.
Georges Pompidou appointed French premier.
1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV
1970 H Potter & A Lokalov discovers asteroid #2975
1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif
Voyageurs National Park, Minn established.
1972 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall.
1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris.
USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing.
1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London.
Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York.
1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III,
L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #2375.
Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
1978 Israeli govt votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai.
1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up.
1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0.
1981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2367 Praha
1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies.
1984 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3277 Aaronson, #3759 & #3760
1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1987 1st time, Dow Jones avg surpassed 2,000, closing at 2,002.2
1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit.
1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die.And Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons.
1991 "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV.
1992 George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap.
1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale.
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
and Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit.

 

[Gothika]

Jun 25 - "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances Jun 25 - #2392 Jonathan Murray, #2441 Hibbs, #2618 Coonabarabran, Jun 25 - #2619 Skalnate Pleso, #2628 Kopal, #2682 Soromundi, Jun 25 - #2704 Julian Loewe, #3129 Bonestell, #3205, #3756, #3817 Lencarter, Jun 25 - #4314, #5019, #5271, #6466, #6623, #6814, #6815, #6849, #6944, #7154, Jun 25 - #7321, #7546, #7547, #7630, #7733, #7734, #7809, #7915, #7982 & #8136 Jun 25 - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium Jun 25 - E F Helin & S J Bus discovers asteroid #2343 Siding Spring


1979 Prices
Milk: $1.50/gal
Eggs: $1.32/doz
Car: $6,847
Gas: $0.88/gal
House: $71,800
Stamp: $0.15/ea
Avg Income: $22,316/yr
Min Wage: $2.90/hr
DOW Avg: 839

People born on June 25
1949 - Phyllis George-Brown Denton Tx, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster
1945 - Carly Simon NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain)
1925 - June Lockhart NYC, actr (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)


On TV in 1979
Charlie's Angels Three's Company CHiPs
Taxi WKRP in Cincinnati Soap
Alice Dallas Mork & Mindy
Laverne & Shirley

Hot New Toys in 1979
Big Boggle Star Trek: The Motion Picture figures Big Trak
Sea Wees Electronic Perfection Intellivision
Strawberry Shortcake dolls

Top Books in 1979
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

 

[TickleChgo]

man invented the wheel

 

[MasterPaladin]

I started to die

 

[thetmfobserver]

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple"