On This Day

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"I am not a crook"

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On Oct. 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

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On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 United States Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

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On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect.

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On Oct. 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

[Dot]

well since kes seems to be late, today is a dust storm on mars..

[Kestra]

cool.

On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.

Oct. 28, 2005, Libby is indicted on 5 counts.

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On Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America's Great Depression began.

i want my SS to be privatized and invested in the stock market, uh huh, uh huh.

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On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.

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On Oct. 31, 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.

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On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.

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On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.

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On Nov. 3, 1936, President Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican challenger Alfred M. ``Alf'' Landon.

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On Nov. 4, 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran.

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On Nov. 5, 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.

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On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the United States presidency.

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On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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On Nov. 8, 1960, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

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On Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.

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On Nov. 10, 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.

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On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans eventually won a major victory over the Japanese.

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On Nov. 14, 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.

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On Nov. 15, 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.

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On Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would ``forever remain normal and friendly.''

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On Nov. 18, 1976, Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

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On Nov. 20, 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

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On Nov. 21, 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.

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On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th president of the United States.

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On Nov. 23, 1943, during World War II, United States forces seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.

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On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

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On Nov. 25, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

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On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1.

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On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.

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On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

[Boby]

1994. - Blazing liner abandoned off east Africa
Almost 1,000 people have been forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire. The Achille Lauro - which made headlines in 1985 when it was hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas - was sailing 50 miles off the Somali coast when the fire started in one of the cabins. Two people died and eight were injured during the transfer of passengers from life rafts to a waiting tanker, according to Coastguard officials.

1982. - Animal activists bomb Downing Street
A letter bomb has exploded inside the British Prime Minister's London residence. Margaret Thatcher was in 10 Downing Street when the device exploded but was not hurt in the blast. One of her staff was slightly burnt in the attack. Four more bombs were sent to senior politicians but were intercepted before they got through. Letters from a group called the Animal Rights Militia were in the Downing Street package but other groups promoting animal welfare have said they have never heard of this organisation

1886. - Once a hall for operettas, pantomime, political meetings, and vaudeville, the Folies Bergère in Paris introduces an elaborate revue featuring women in sensational costumes. The highly popular "Place aux Jeunes" established the Folies as the premier nightspot in Paris. In the 1890s, the Folies followed the Parisian taste for striptease and quickly gained a reputation for its spectacular nude shows. The theater spared no expense, staging revues that featured as many as 40 sets, 1,000 costumes, and an off-stage crew of some 200 people. The Folies Bergère remained a success throughout the 20th century and still can be seen in Paris today, although the theater now features many mainstream concerts and performances. Among other traditions that date back more than a century, the show's title always contains 13 letters and includes the word "Folie."

1954. - Meteorite strikes Alabama woman
The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip. The victim, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, was sleeping on a couch at the time of impact. The space rock was a sulfide meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring seven inches in length. Mrs. Hodges was not permanently injured but suffered a nasty bruise along her hip and leg. Ancient Chinese records tell of people being injured or killed by falling meteorites, but the Sylacauga meteorite was the first modern record of this type of human injury. In 1911, a dog in Egypt was killed by the Nakhla meteorite.

1993. - During a White House ceremony attended by James S. Brady, President Bill Clinton signs the Brady handgun-control bill into law. The law requires a prospective handgun buyer to wait five business days while the authorities check on his or her background, during which time the sale is approved or prohibited based on an established set of criteria.

1981. - Representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe. The talks lasted until December 17, but ended inconclusively.
SALT I (1972) and SALT II (1979) reduced the number of strategic nuclear weapons held by the two superpowers, but left unresolved the issue of the growing number of non-strategic weapons-the so-called intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. By 1976, the Soviets began to update their INF systems with better SS-20 missiles. America's NATO allies called for a U.S. response, and the United States threatened to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles by 1983 if no agreement could be reached with the Soviets concerning INFs. However, by 1981, the situation changed. No-nuke forces were gaining strength in western Europe and there was a growing fear that President Ronald Reagan's heated Cold War rhetoric would lead to a nuclear showdown with Europe as the battlefield. The United States and U.S.S.R. agreed to open talks on INFs in November 1981. Prior to the talks, President Reagan announced the so-called "zero option" as the basis for the U.S. position at the negotiations. In this plan, the United States would cancel deployment of its new missiles in western Europe if the Soviets dismantled their INFs in eastern Europe. The proposal was greeted with some skepticism, even by some U.S. allies, who believed that it was a public relations ploy that would be completely unacceptable to the Soviets. The Soviets responded with a detailed proposal that essentially eliminated all of the INFs from Europe, including French and British missiles that had not been covered in Reagan's zero option plan. Of course, such a plan would also leave west Europe subject to the Soviets' superior conventional forces. Neither proposal seemed particularly realistic, and despite efforts by some of the U.S. and Soviet negotiators, no compromise could be reached. An INF treaty would not be signed until December 1987, when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev finally hammered out a plan acceptable to both sides.

1989. - Richard Mallory, a storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida, is last seen taking a ride with Aileen Wuornos. The following day, his car--containing his wallet, some condoms, and an empty vodka bottle--was found abandoned in a remote area of Ormond Beach. Nearly two weeks later, his body turned up in a Daytona Beach junkyard with three bullets in his chest. Mallory's murder was the first of seven committed by Aileen Wuornos over the next year. Perhaps because she was one of the few women killers to gain widespread fame and notoriety, she was inaccurately dubbed "America's first female serial killer." Her case was heavily publicized through television talk show appearances and a documentary, The Selling of a Serial Killer. Wuornos had been the victim of abuse and neglect herself. Her parents split before she was born and her father, who had been arrested for child molesting, killed himself while awaiting trial in a mental institution. When her mother abandoned her at a young age, Aileen was sent to live with her grandparents. But she was kicked out of their home when she got pregnant at age 13.
From 1974 to 1976, Wuornos operated under several aliases and amassed an arrest record for offenses including drunk driving, assault, and armed robbery. In 1986, she became romantically and criminally involved with a woman named Tyria Moore.
In late 1989, Wuornos began her infamous killing spree. Five months after Richard Mallory was killed, David Spears was found dead, shot six times with a .22 caliber gun in the woods near Tampa. At around the same time, another male body turned up nearby that appeared to have been killed with the same type of gun. Three additional men met the same demise during the summer of 1990. When the seventh victim was found in November, the media was alerted to the possibility of a serial killer. After receiving several tips, detectives caught Wuornos in a seedy biker bar in January 1991. With Moore assisting police, Wuornos decided to confess to the killings but claimed that they had all been done in self-defense. When a jury found Wuornos guilty on January 27, 1992, she screamed out, "I'm innocent! I was raped! I hope you get raped! Scumbags of America!" Her outburst was probably ill considered, given the fact that the same jury came back to decide her penalty the next day. Wuornos was sentenced to death.

1959. - Production begins on Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.

1994. - Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio. He survived the shooting, but was killed two years later in Las Vegas. Two days later a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a woman, but acquitted him of the more serious sex and weopons charges.

1971. - Jim Morrison, the lead singer of American rock group The Doors has died in Paris aged 27. He was found in a bathtub at his apartment at 17 Rue Beautraillis by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson. A doctor's report stated the cause of death was heart failure aggravated by heavy drinking.

Birthdays:

Ben Stiller 1965
Billy Idol 1955
David Mamet 1947
Roger Glover (Deep Purple) 1945
Virginia Mayo 1920
Jonathan Swift 1667
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835
Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874

Memory Wall:

Michael Witney
Born 1931 (date and place unknown) - Died of heart attack November 30, 1983 in New York, NY
Played Tyree in "A Private Little War"

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On Nov. 30, 1995, President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.

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On Dec. 1, 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.

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On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

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On Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

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On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

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On Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.

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On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act that led to America's entry into World War II.

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On this day, DEC 07, 2005, I woke up early.:D

[Boby]

I would really like to can be around more, but cannot. So here is Memory Wall for December:

Born:
John Colicos
Born December 10, 1928 in Toronto, ON. Canada
Died of series of heart attacks March 6, 2000 in Toronto, ON. Canada
Played Cmdr. Kor in “Errand of Mercy” (first Klingon)

Hal Baylor
Born December 10, 1918 – Died January 5, 1998
Played the policeman in „The City on the Edge of Forever“

Bill Zuckert
Born December 18, 1915 in New York, USA
Died of cancer and pneumonia January 23.1997 in Woodland Hills, CA
Played Johnny Behan in “Spectre of the Gun”

Rudy Solari
Born December 21, 1934 in Stanislaus County, CA
Died of Cancer, April 23, 1991 in Indio, CA
Played Salish in “The Paradise Syndrome”

James Gregory
Born December 23, 1911 in The Bronx, NY
Died of natural causes September 16, 2002 in Sedona, AZ
Played Dr. Tristan Adams in “Dagger of the Mind“

Elisha Cook Jr.
Born December 26, 1903 in San Francisco, CA
Died of Stroke, May 18, 1995 in Big Pine, CA
Played Samuel T. Cogley in “Court Martial“


Died:
Sam Gilman
Born February 5, 1915 in Lynn, MA
Died December 3, 1985 in North Hollywood, CA
Played Doc Holliday in “Spectre of the Gun“

Kay Elliot
Born May 14, 1929 in Illinois
Died December 3, 1982 in Los Angeles, CA
Played Stella Mudd in “I, Mudd“

Michael Zaslow
Born November 1, 1942 in Inglewood, CA
Died of Lou Gehrig’s disease December 6, 1998 in New York, NY
Played Darnell in “The Man Trap” and
ensign Jordan in “I, Mudd“ (first character to die in Star Trek)

Arnold Moss
Born January 28, 1910 in Brooklyn, NY
Died of lung cancer December 15, 1989 in New York, NY
Played Anton Karidian in “The Conscience of the King”

Madlyn Rhue
Born October 3, 1935 in Washington, DC
Died of pneumonia and multiple sclerosis December 16, 2003 in Woodland Hills, CA
Played Lt. Marla McGivers in “Space Seed”

Peter Brocco
Born January 16, 1903 in Reading, PA
Died of heart attack December 20, 1992 in Los Angeles, CA
Played Claymare in “Errand of Mercy”

Wah Chang
Born August 2, 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Died December 22, 2003 in Carmel, CA
Prop and Creature designer, created communicator and tricorder

Lloyd Haynes
Born September 19, 1934 in South Bend, IN
Died of cancer December 31, 1986 in Coronado, CA
Played Lieutenant Alden in
“Where No Man Has Gone Before“

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On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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On Dec. 9, 1992, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.

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On Dec. 10, 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

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On Dec. 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.

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On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya gained its independence from Britain.

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On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Martial law formally ended in 1983.

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On Dec. 14, 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.

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On Dec. 15, 1916, the French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.

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On Dec. 16, 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."

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On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright took the first successful man-powered airplane flights, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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On Dec. 18, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went online.

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On Dec. 19, 1984, Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.

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On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States launched Operation Just Cause, sending troops into Panama to topple the government of General Manuel Noriega.

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On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

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On Dec. 22, 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."

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On Dec. 23, 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

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On Dec. 24, 1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.

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On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation.

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On Dec. 26, 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress.

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On Dec. 27, 1979, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.

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On Dec. 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.

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On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

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On Dec. 31, 1946, President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

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On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.

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On Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.

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On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.

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On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.

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On Jan. 7, 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.

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On Jan. 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I.

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On Jan. 9, 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

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On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.

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On Jan. 11, 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

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On Jan. 12, 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

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On Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

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On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

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On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

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On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.

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On Jan. 18, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first. :doh:

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On Jan. 19, 1937, millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.

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On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.

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On Jan. 22, 1973, in its Roe vs. Wade decision, the Supreme Court legalized abortions, using a trimester approach.

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On Jan. 23, 1973, President Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.

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On Jan. 24, 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.

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On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

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On Jan. 26, 1950, India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.

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On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

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On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members: flight commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee; pilot Michael J. Smith; Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka; Judith A. Resnik; Gregory B. Jarvis; and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

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On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

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On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.

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On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.

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:):):)Kestra,:):):) could I please have my lavender pearl avatar on this day please?:):):)

[Kestra]

On Feb. 2, 2006, gem received her lavender pearl avatar.

On Feb. 2, 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II.

[gem]

:):):)Thank you, thank you, thank you!:):):)

When I look at my lavender pearl, in my mind I am in a lovely meadow with spring flowers, oh and I am beautiful;), and I am dancing and singing..."I feel pretty, oh so pretty...and when I get to the lyric that goes...and gay, I mean it's original meaning not the contemporary meaning.;)

[Kestra]

you're most welcome gem. funny how meanings of words change over time. did you know that according to Webster’s unabridged dictionary that: fag = a bundle of sticks.

On Feb. 3, 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

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On Feb. 5, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.

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On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.

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astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart the first untethered spacewalk. photos.

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On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep."

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On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.

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On Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.

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On Feb. 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.

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On Feb. 12, 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

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On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed.

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On Feb. 14, 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.

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On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain.

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On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.

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On Feb. 17, 1972, President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China.

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On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.

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On Feb. 19, 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 United States Marines landed on the Western Pacific island of Iwo Jima, where they encountered ferocious resistance from Japanese forces. The Americans took control of the strategically important island after a month-long battle.

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On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth as he flew aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.

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On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.

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On Feb. 22, 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

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On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

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On Feb. 24, 1868, the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the Senate later acquitted Johnson.

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On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the United States Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.

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On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

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On Feb. 27, 1991, President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.

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On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.

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On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.

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On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

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On March 3, 1991, in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

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On March 4, 1933, the start of President Roosevelt's first administration brought with it the first woman to serve in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

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On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.

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On March 6, 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.

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On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

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On March 8, 1917, Russia's February Revolution (so called because of the Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg.

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On March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va.

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On March 10, 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. His death was announced on March 11th. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.

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On March 11, 1941, President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.

[Kestra]

On March 12, 1947, President Truman established what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.

[Kestra]

On March 13, 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the United States Senate.

[Kestra]

On March 14, 1900, Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

[Kestra]

On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.

[Kestra]

On March 17, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.

[Kestra]

On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.

[Kestra]

On March 19, 1920, the United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.

[Kestra]

On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains.

[Kestra]

On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

[Kestra]

On March 22, 1972, Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths approval needed.

[Kestra]

On March 23, 1965, America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard.

[Kestra]

On March 24, 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.

[Kestra]

On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

[Kestra]

On March 26, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House

[Kestra]

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.

[Kestra]

On March 28, 1912, my father was born. Happy Birthday dad.

On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

[Kestra]

On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House news secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia police officer.

[Kestra]

On March 31, 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office.

[Kestra]

On April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II.

[Kestra]

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."

[Kestra]

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries.

[Kestra]

On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.

[Kestra]

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

[Kestra]

On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.

[Kestra]

On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

[Kestra]

On April 8, 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

[Kestra]

On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

[Kestra]

On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.

[Kestra]

On April 11, 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.

[Kestra]

On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president.

[gem]

I was born!:) Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday, Dear Meeeeeeeee! Happy Birthday to me.;)

And now the weekend begins!

[Kestra]

:HBday: gem. :)



On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.

[Kestra]

On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.

[Kestra]

On April 16, 1947, America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.

[Kestra]

On April 17, 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.

[Dot]

on this day, British Prime Minister Tony Blair canceled an upcoming U.S. visit to avoid being photographed with President Bush, Blair decided the photo op would be “too toxic for his image.”

[bengel]

I'd like to see the photo when they kiss each other... :D

[Kestra]

lol@bengel. that's too distrubing to think about.

On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring 500. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to death.

On April 19, 1989 darling and i became one.

[Deacon]

Kestra,
:balloon: Congratulations to you and your darling!!!!! :Party:

:( And a Moment of Slence for the victims and their families in Oklahoma. :angelfly:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Amen.

[Dot]

YEAH the merging of Kes & Darling :D

Boo for the McFees and other homegrown terrorist :mad:

[Kestra]

thank you , thank you.

On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.

i remember when all of this was going on. the problem with the program was that it would bus children to different school districts which sometimes called for children taking a bus ride for several miles. even tho some of them lived within a block or closer to a school, they were not allowed to attend that school because they didn’t live in that ‘district’. many parents refused to allow their children to be bussed to different districts. it was quite the upheaval. in this area we were more fortunate and had no 'forced bussing' situation. even so, we lived in restless times.

[Kestra]

On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.

[Kestra]

On April 22, 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.

[Kestra]

On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life

[Kestra]

On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

[Kestra]

On April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.

[Dot]

Didn't get much press but I thought it deserved a mention, on this day:

ORONTO, ON, Canada (UPI) -- Investigators have tracked down a girl whose picture turned up on Web sites dealing in child pornography.

CNN reports that the girl is in a foster home in Pennsylvania, and her adoptive father, who allegedly photographed her in hotel rooms, is in prison on an unrelated charge.

The investigation began in Toronto when European authorities notified Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the sex crimes unit. While police were handicapped because they could not publicize the photo of a child victim, they eventually discovered that some of the pictures had been taken in a resort hotel at Walt Disney World.

Investigators from Florida and Toronto working together traced another girl shown in some of the pictures.

[Kestra]

:UPoint: that is good news. thanks for posting it.

and now on a more somber note:

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.

[Kestra]

On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.

[Kestra]

On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.

[Kestra]

On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

[Kestra]

On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

[Kestra]

On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

[Mod_Bob]

Happy birthday Empire State Building 75 years old today

American Airlines created the original Frequent flyer miles.

[Kestra]

cool, happy birthday Lady Liberty.

On May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

[Kestra]

On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.

[Kestra]

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

[Kestra]

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

[Kestra]

On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

[Kestra]

On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II.

[Kestra]

On May 8, 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

[Kestra]

On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.

[Kestra]

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

[Kestra]

On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct

[Kestra]

On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

[Deacon]

1978 - From the And You Thought We Had This Straightened Out By Now file: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it would alternate men’s and women’s names in the naming of hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play. Hurricanes had been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from women’s groups who were demanding that Atlantic storms be given unisex names. “It’s not fair that women should get all the attention for causing damage and destruction,” one women’s activist claimed. David, Allen, Hugo, Mitch and Andrew agreed.

[Kestra]

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

[Kestra]

On May 14, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end.

[Kestra]

On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

[Deacon]

"Today is the anniversary of the birth of Lyman Frank Baum, who was born in 1856. Lyman grew up to become a newspaperman and the author of one of the most famous children’s stories in recent history. Lyman Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum wrote a series of Oz books, but this was the most famous.
He also adapted the story into a musical play. It then became the basis for the 1939 MGM musical, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, and Billy Burke among others. The film, a classic, was nominated for six Academy Awards but won only two (Best Song: Over the Rainbow and Best Score).

Lyman Frank Baum’s adaptation was adapted once again in 1978 as a Broadway show and film, The Wiz, featuring an all-black cast."

[Kestra]

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.

[Kestra]

On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

i remember when that happened, we lived near the Canadian boarder at the time, and heard 5 explosions each one louder then the next. we even got a light dusting of the ash.

[Kestra]

On May 19, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

[Deacon]

This is one of my heros:
1927 - ‘Lucky’ Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York aboard the small airplane Spirit of St. Louis, en route to Paris, France. Thirty-three and one-half hours later, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at his destination -- and flew into history.

[Deacon]

Another flying related item:
1939 - The Yankee Clipper took off from Port Washington, NY, bound for Europe. The plane, the flagship of Pan American Airways, established the first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean.

[Kestra]

flash back! flash back! when i was a child… (well… a younger child than i am today), my father used to do: “On This Day” Presentations. he would march into the room, stop, click his heels together and announce grandly with immense theatrics, what past event occurred on this day. it was always entertaining when he presented our “daily history lesson.” lol any hoo, i remember him presenting: The Yankee Clipper and Spirit of St. Louis.

epiphany: and now i’m doing it here. lol

that is a pleasant memory, thank you.

On May 20, 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.

[Deacon]

1927 - Charles A. Lindbergh arrived to a hero’s welcome in Paris, in his spindly monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis (the famous plane is now displayed in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC). Lindbergh’s flight marked the first time that a person had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. The event got more press coverage than any other single even in history to that time. In American newspapers alone, it was estimated that some 27,000 columns of words were used to describe Lindbergh’s epic journey. A depiction of that famous flight was portrayed by one of America’s great motion picture actors, Jimmy Stewart, in the film, The Spirit of St. Louis. Upon his return to American soil, Lucky Lindy was given another hero’s welcome.

[Kestra]

i remember that movie my family and i watched it together.

[Deacon]

My mom took me to see it in the theater and I have seen it several times since. also have Lindbergh's book.

[Kestra]

it's been 100 years (give or take a few) since i've seen that movie. it's always fun to watch them again after not seeing them for a spell. it's like a whole new movie.

On May 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a ''Pact of Steel'' committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.

[Kestra]

On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La.

[NoonienSoong97]

On May 23, 1994 Star Trek TNG Series Final aired, and 2001 Star Trek Voyager Series Final aired.

Wow it has been 12 years since TNG where does the time go?

[Deacon]

thought these were interesting:
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, officially opened. At the time, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is held together with 5,296 bound-steel cables. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, took 14 years to build. The span is 1,595 feet long, cost $16 million to construct and no, it’s not for sale!

1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge fireworks display. Ooh, ah... Oh, it’s still not for sale!

[Kestra]

rumor has it that: time is an illusion.

what! the Brooklyn Bridge is not for sale! now what am i going to get darling for his birthday!?

[Kestra]

On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

[Deacon]

Born Marion Morrison on this day in 1907 in Winterset, Iowa, John ‘Duke’ Wayne became the archetypical image of the American hero. His fifty-year film career began in the 1930s in low-budget Westerns.
The Duke’s first major role was in Stagecoach where he played the part of the Ringo Kid. It was while he was working on this film that John Wayne began his long-term association with director John Ford. The two worked so well together that Wayne was cast in Ford’s top pictures, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, They Were Expendable, and The Quiet Man.

Wayne was most often cast in Westerns and war movies, winning an Academy Award for his performance in True Grit in 1969, and directing and starring in the 1960 epic western, The Alamo, and the 1968 war film, The Green Berets (prompted by his superpatriotism).

Critics panned him, audiences loved him. The big, slow-talking actor was not only a superpatriot, but a super hero. And he played that role in his personal life, too. Battling cancer, and surviving his first cancer operation, he said that he had “licked the Big C.” His final role (1976) was in another western, The Shootist. He played the part of a gunfighter who had cancer. The Duke died in 1979. This was one fight he couldn’t win.

John ‘Duke’ Wayne once gave some advice to would-be actors: “Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.” It was good advice for all.

[Kestra]

i always liked the Duke.

On May 26, 1868, the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.

[Kestra]

On May 27, 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.

[Kestra]

On May 28, 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.

[Kestra]

On May 30, 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

[Kestra]

On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

[Kestra]

On June 1, 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Conn.

i remember seeing "The Mirical Worker" with Patty Duke as Helen Keller years ago. it was also on the telly not too long ago so i watched it agian. it's a great movie.

[Kestra]

On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

[MissKitty]

Originally posted by Kestra
On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

Readers Digest did this great story about that when I was a kid. Used to carry it in my backpack along with my books on Tornadoes (natural disasters nerd!).
Really fantastic stories of that day. Everything was really well documented.

[MissKitty]

Originally posted by Kestra
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

The latest Doctor Who that just aired has this event going on in the background.

[Kestra]

that's really cool, MissKitty. my mum shares the same birthday as the queen mum.
tornadoes are cool, i love mother nature when she’s rowdy. i love thunderstorms, darling and i will stand outside and watch the lightening. we've seen some spectacular lightening storms. have you ever had a clap of lightening flash straight above your head? it’s exhilarating! that’s an experience not easily described. Kundalilni. :D i also love the sound of the rain on our roof, i always open a window so it’s louder. it takes me back to my younger years… pleasant memories.

Doctor Who event going on in the background aye? did the Tarderous appear? ;)

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

[MissKitty]

Originally posted by Kestra
that's really cool, MissKitty. my mum shares the same birthday as the queen mum.
tornadoes are cool, i love mother nature when she’s rowdy. i love thunderstorms, darling and i will stand outside and watch the lightening. we've seen some spectacular lightening storms. have you ever had a clap of lightening flash straight above your head? it’s exhilarating! that’s an experience not easily described. Kundalilni. :D i also love the sound of the rain on our roof, i always open a window so it’s louder. it takes me back to my younger years… pleasant memories.

Doctor Who event going on in the background aye? did the Tarderous appear? ;)

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.


Had a direct hit about 20 feet away from me and it hit the power line and generator- big badda boom and I did a fall and cover! hehe. Best thunderstorm I ever saw was up in a plane. We were running to Las Vegas and flying along side this huge front. I could see all the little towns getting hit by lightening below the clouds. It was utterly fancinating. No sprites though. :mad:
I love those things dancing in the upper atmo.

The latest Doctor Who had Rose and Ten running around London during Elizabeth's cornination saving the world.
Davies and Co. really out do themselves every week and I can't wait for the new series "Torchwood" to come out with Captain Jack Hawt-er.. Harkness starring in it.

June 3rd 0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
Births:
1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver

[Kestra]

that's way cool.

On June 4, 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds - possibly thousands - of people died.

[Kestra]

On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.

[Kestra]

On June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.

[Kestra]

On June 7, 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

[Kestra]

On June 8, 1969, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

[Kestra]

On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: ``Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?''

[Kestra]

On June 11, 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.

[Kestra]

On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to ''tear down this wall.''

[Kestra]

On June 13, 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.

[Kestra]

On June 14, 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.

[Kestra]

On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.

[Kestra]

On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.

[Kestra]

On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.

[Kestra]

On June 18, 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

[Kestra]

On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

[Kestra]

On June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

[Kestra]

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.

[Kestra]

On June 22, 1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

[Kestra]

On June 23, 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.