Wednesday, April 07, 2004
(Oops, I forgot the important post...)
Today in history...
0030 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer)
0451 Attila's Hun's plunder Metz.
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1712 Slave revolt (New York NY)
1770 William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic school of poetry, is born.
1805 After a long winter, the Lewis and Clark expedition departs its camp among the Mandan Indians and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
..and Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches.
1862 Two days of heavy fighting conclude near Pittsburgh Landing in western Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became a Union victory after the Confederate attack stalled on April 6, and fresh Yankee troops drove the Confederates from the field on April 7.
1891 American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum dies in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Though he was gravely ill, the 81-year-old showman's sense of humor hadn't deserted him. He requested that a New York paper run his obituary before he died so he could enjoy reading it, and the paper obliged.
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
1915 Jazz singer Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1922 Racer Sig Haugdahl drove the Wisconsin Special over 180mph on a one-way run at the Daytona Beach racing oval. Haugdahl's speed was a remarkable 24mph faster than the previous world-land speed record.
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose.
1927 The first simultaneous telecast of image and sound takes place on this day in 1927. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover read a speech in Washington, D.C., which was transmitted to Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, where an audience saw and heard a tiny televised image of Hoover, less than 3 inches square. (Yes, using a telephone line. So why can't I get decent streaming media?)
1928 A 45-year-old retired goalie by the name of Lester Patrick stepped in to save a game for the New York Rangers, following an injury to the Rangers’ regular goaltender. The Rangers went on to beat the Montreal Maroons and win the Stanley Cup in this, the final game of the series.
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. (Utah?!?!)
1939 On this day in 1939, in an effort to mimic Hitler's conquest of Prague, Benito Mussolini's troops, though badly organized, invade and occupy Albania.
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington).
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg.
1945 On this day in 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, ostensibly the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japan's first major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa.
1948 Twenty Buddhist monks in Shanghai are immolated as their monastery burns.
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "domino" effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called "domino theory" dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years. (What did they do before then?)
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors.
...and Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. The ‘Golden Bear’ earned the win at one of golf’s premier events at the age of 23.
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4.
...and In Toronto, John Lennon recorded "Give Peace a Chance." The song was his first solo single.
1970 The X-rated movie Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for Best Picture.
...and John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar. (True Grit)
1975 Christopher Keith Walker born in Nashville, Tennessee at Baptist Hospital at 12:10 a.m.
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game. Cubs lose. (Surprised?)
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC.
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
1989 Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Norwegian sea, with two nuclear reactors and two nuclear torpedoes aboard. 41 crewmembers die, and the submarine remains one mile below the surface of the ocean, with its nuclear weapons intact.
1994 Courtney Love arrested on drug charges in Beverly Hills. What a surprise!
...and Vatican acknowledges Holocaust for 1st time. (Little late guys.)
...and Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton (Is that the guy that runs the Fashionable Male?)
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fort Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1998 Wendy O. Williams, former porn star and singer for The Plasmatics, kills herself with a gun near her Connecticut home.
1998 Pop singer George Michael is arrested by an undercover police officer after wanking in front him in a public toilet.
1999 A bomb goes off in the "Valley of the Fallen" church, which is carved into a mountainside north of Madrid. The church houses the mortal remains of dictator Francisco Franco. The terrorist group GRAPO claims responsibility, and while there were no injuries, the damage was extensive.
2003 Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died
2155 First Contact between humans and the prominently-coiffured Centauri Alliance. (Babylon 5 timeline)
Today in history...
0030 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer)
0451 Attila's Hun's plunder Metz.
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1712 Slave revolt (New York NY)
1770 William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic school of poetry, is born.
1805 After a long winter, the Lewis and Clark expedition departs its camp among the Mandan Indians and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
..and Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches.
1862 Two days of heavy fighting conclude near Pittsburgh Landing in western Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became a Union victory after the Confederate attack stalled on April 6, and fresh Yankee troops drove the Confederates from the field on April 7.
1891 American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum dies in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Though he was gravely ill, the 81-year-old showman's sense of humor hadn't deserted him. He requested that a New York paper run his obituary before he died so he could enjoy reading it, and the paper obliged.
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
1915 Jazz singer Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1922 Racer Sig Haugdahl drove the Wisconsin Special over 180mph on a one-way run at the Daytona Beach racing oval. Haugdahl's speed was a remarkable 24mph faster than the previous world-land speed record.
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose.
1927 The first simultaneous telecast of image and sound takes place on this day in 1927. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover read a speech in Washington, D.C., which was transmitted to Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, where an audience saw and heard a tiny televised image of Hoover, less than 3 inches square. (Yes, using a telephone line. So why can't I get decent streaming media?)
1928 A 45-year-old retired goalie by the name of Lester Patrick stepped in to save a game for the New York Rangers, following an injury to the Rangers’ regular goaltender. The Rangers went on to beat the Montreal Maroons and win the Stanley Cup in this, the final game of the series.
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. (Utah?!?!)
1939 On this day in 1939, in an effort to mimic Hitler's conquest of Prague, Benito Mussolini's troops, though badly organized, invade and occupy Albania.
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington).
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg.
1945 On this day in 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, ostensibly the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japan's first major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa.
1948 Twenty Buddhist monks in Shanghai are immolated as their monastery burns.
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "domino" effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called "domino theory" dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years. (What did they do before then?)
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors.
...and Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. The ‘Golden Bear’ earned the win at one of golf’s premier events at the age of 23.
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4.
...and In Toronto, John Lennon recorded "Give Peace a Chance." The song was his first solo single.
1970 The X-rated movie Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for Best Picture.
...and John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar. (True Grit)
1975 Christopher Keith Walker born in Nashville, Tennessee at Baptist Hospital at 12:10 a.m.
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game. Cubs lose. (Surprised?)
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC.
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
1989 Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Norwegian sea, with two nuclear reactors and two nuclear torpedoes aboard. 41 crewmembers die, and the submarine remains one mile below the surface of the ocean, with its nuclear weapons intact.
1994 Courtney Love arrested on drug charges in Beverly Hills. What a surprise!
...and Vatican acknowledges Holocaust for 1st time. (Little late guys.)
...and Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton (Is that the guy that runs the Fashionable Male?)
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fort Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1998 Wendy O. Williams, former porn star and singer for The Plasmatics, kills herself with a gun near her Connecticut home.
1998 Pop singer George Michael is arrested by an undercover police officer after wanking in front him in a public toilet.
1999 A bomb goes off in the "Valley of the Fallen" church, which is carved into a mountainside north of Madrid. The church houses the mortal remains of dictator Francisco Franco. The terrorist group GRAPO claims responsibility, and while there were no injuries, the damage was extensive.
2003 Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died
2155 First Contact between humans and the prominently-coiffured Centauri Alliance. (Babylon 5 timeline)
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