On This Day [Archive] - Page 4 - Roddenberry.Com BBS

Kai

03-22-2007, 10:52 AM

California-based team cracks century-old math problem

PALO ALTO, California (AP) -- A century-old math puzzle so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan was finally cracked by an international research team working for four years.

The 18-member group of mathematicians and computer scientists was convened today by the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto to map a theoretical object known as the "Lie group E8."

Lie (pronounced Lee) groups were invented by 19th-century Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie in his study of symmetrical objects, especially spheres, and differential calculus.

The E8 group, discovered in 1887, is the most complicated Lie group, with 248 dimensions, and was long considered impossible to solve.

"To say what precisely it is is something even many mathematicians can't understand," said Jeffrey Adams, the project's leader and a math professor at the University of Maryland.

The problem's proof, announced Monday, consists of more than 205 billion entries, with about 60 times the data of the Human Genome Project. When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution takes up as much space as 45 days of continuous music in MP3 format.

"It's like a Mount Everest of mathematical structures they've climbed now," said Brian Conrey, director of the institute.

The calculation does not have any obvious practical applications but could help advance theoretical physics and geometry, researchers said.

Kestra

03-22-2007, 11:17 AM

is the answer 42? :veg:

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0322.html#article)

Mriana

03-22-2007, 01:00 PM

Well, at least it's gotten better, but I can't say the fight for equality is over though and in order to keep what we have gained, we have use it or we loose it. So, I hope every woman here on the board, and not on the board, gets out there and votes next election. :) Remember, the Women's Sufferage Act passed only yesterday (so to speak).

Kestra

03-22-2007, 03:29 PM

there was a lot of bitterness surrounding that amendment, and not just in the government. i know, i was there. i don't know if you read the article or not. but the 'threat' of drafting women was used as a ploy to discourage women's equal rights groups from pursuing equality. there were ppl vehemently against women serving in combat situations. arguments such as: it would be too disruptive because the males would be too concerned with womens' safety. where would they sleep, shower etc. interesting times. i remember being told by men that women really screwed themselves when they demanded and won equal rights. yes, lots of bitterness concerning that.

and now look, women are serving in Iraq. yes, times have changed. and now the equal rights battle concerns gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. and the arguments are the same.

Mriana

03-22-2007, 03:37 PM

Yes, I remember the arguments. I heard them all when I was young. Thing is, women in the military don't get treated very well as we've seen from the Iraq war. They are treated like military equipment in some cases. :eyeroll: If you catch my drift.

Kestra

03-23-2007, 10:24 AM

yes, and they're worried about gays and lesbians in the military. of all those cases, how many of them involved gays and lesbians?

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0323.html#article)

Kestra

03-24-2007, 09:06 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0324.html#article)

Kestra

03-25-2007, 10:41 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0325.html#article)

Kestra

03-26-2007, 08:12 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0326.html#article)

Kestra

03-27-2007, 09:47 AM

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0327.html#article)

Kestra

03-28-2007, 10:40 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0328.html#article)

and on a conikidink, Michael Douglas had just released the movie: "The China Syndrome" around the time Three Mile Island happened.

Kestra

03-29-2007, 10:40 AM

On March 29, 1973, the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0329.html#article)

Kestra

03-30-2007, 10:21 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0330.html#article)

Kestra

03-31-2007, 01:57 PM

On March 31, 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0331.html#article)

Kestra

04-01-2007, 10:16 AM

On April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0401.html#article)

Kestra

04-02-2007, 07:22 AM

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy." Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0402.html#article)

Dot

04-03-2007, 08:22 AM

on this day Scotty got his space visa!

'Star Trek' actor's ashes heading to space this month
POSTED: 12:45 p.m. EDT, April 2, 2007

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) -- The ashes of James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, have been loaded into a rocket that is set to launch in New Mexico later this month.

The remains of Doohan, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and some 200 others were loaded into the rocket Friday by Charles Chafer, chief executive of Celestis, a Texas company that contracts with rocket firms to send cremated remains into space.

"And we're ready to go," Chafer said after inserting the silver canister.

Jerry Larson, president of Connecticut-based UP Aerospace Inc., said the rocket will be launched April 28.

Families paid $495 to have a few grams of their loved one's ashes placed on the rocket.

Chafer said he's aware of the dedication of "Star Trek" fans.

"There's no doubt that we'll find a way to accommodate fans who travel here and want to be part of that experience," he said.

Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85.

The remains of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry were blasted into space in 1997.

Mriana

04-03-2007, 10:28 AM

Bagpipes play in the background for our beloved Scotty as he blasts off into space. :)

Kestra

04-03-2007, 10:43 AM

Mr. Doohan said this was his favourtie line: "Admiral, there be whales here!"

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0403.html#article)

Kestra

04-04-2007, 12:21 PM

On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0404.html#article)

Mriana

04-04-2007, 01:57 PM

It was a sad day. :( But the dream lives on in others.

Kestra

04-05-2007, 03:08 PM

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0405.html#article)

Kestra

04-06-2007, 10:28 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0406.html#article)

Kestra

04-07-2007, 01:13 PM

On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. Go To Aritcle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0407.html#article)

Kestra

04-08-2007, 09:01 AM

On April 8, 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0408.html#article)

Kestra

04-09-2007, 10:36 AM

On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0409.html#article)

Kestra

04-10-2007, 10:08 AM

On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0410.html#article)

Kestra

04-11-2007, 09:49 AM

On April 11, 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0411.html#article)

Kestra

04-12-2007, 10:44 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0412.html#article)

Kestra

04-13-2007, 10:30 AM

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.) Go To Artcle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0413.html#article)

and the world prayed as one.

Kestra

04-14-2007, 09:30 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0414.html#article)

Kestra

04-15-2007, 10:13 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0415.html#article)

Kestra

04-16-2007, 11:38 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0416.html#article)

Kestra

04-17-2007, 10:23 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0417.html#article)

Kestra

04-18-2007, 10:19 AM

On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0418.html#article) my grandfather had imigrated from Sweden and landed in San Frisco the day after the quake.

Kestra

04-19-2007, 10:48 AM

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 later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.) Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0419.html#article)

April 19 1906, my grandfather immigrated from Sweden and landed in San Fransico.

April 19, darlings and my 18th anniversary.

Kestra

04-20-2007, 11:25 AM

On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0420.html#article)

Mriana

04-20-2007, 11:45 AM

Yup! I remember my mother saying my school could not tell her who my teacher was going to be in the fall for the next school year due to bussing.

Kestra

04-21-2007, 09:41 AM

yes, i remember how disruptive it was for families. that solution angered a lot of ppl.

On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0421.html#article)

it's also Queen Elizabeth II and my mom's birthday today the Queen mum turns 81 and my mom turns 82 years old today.

Kestra

04-22-2007, 10:06 AM

i've got more than one today, i found all of these interesting.

On April 22, 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0422.html#article)

1864 Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.

1970 Earth Day was observed for the first time.

2005 Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)

Kestra

04-23-2007, 11:35 AM

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 imprisonment. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0423.html#article)

Kestra

04-24-2007, 09:02 AM

On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0424.html#article)

Kestra

04-25-2007, 11:48 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0425.html#article)

1507 America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map to refer to the huge mass of land in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.

1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for a failed savings and loan.

Kestra

04-26-2007, 11:21 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0426.html#article)

Kestra

04-27-2007, 11:01 AM

On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0427.html#article)

Kestra

04-28-2007, 10:08 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0428.html#article)

considering what's happening with our current admin, i found the following to be apropos.

1996 President Bill Clinton gave 4 1/2 hours of videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.

1999 The House rejected on a tie vote of 213-213 a measure expressing support for NATO's five-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president's authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.

2004 The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS' "60 Minutes II."

Kestra

04-29-2007, 10:44 AM

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. Go To Artcile (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0429.html#article)

here's a few more i found of interest.

1429 Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.

1945 Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. The couple killed themselves the next day.

1945 American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

1974 President Richard Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

1997 Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.

2004 President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met behind closed doors with the Sept. 11 commission.

Kestra

04-30-2007, 10:03 AM

On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0430.html#article)

1789 George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1803 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

1900 Train engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. (The event was immortalized in song.)

1945 Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker.

1970 President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia.

Mriana

04-30-2007, 06:05 PM

1970 President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia.

Now how did I know the current state of affairs sounded sooooo familiar.

Kestra

05-01-2007, 12:08 PM

On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0501.html#article)

1707 The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

1941 The Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" premiered in New York.

1967 Singer Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.

1992 On the third day of the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared in public to appeal for calm, asking "Can we all get along?"

1999 The Mercury space capsule Liberty Bell 7 that Gus Grissom flew in 1961 was found in the Atlantic Ocean 300 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, Fla.

2001 Thomas E. Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala., that claimed the lives of four black girls. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)

2003 On May 1, 2003, in a carefully orchestrated photo-op, President Bush landed aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln dressed in full fighter gear, announced to the nation and the world that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended (http://capweb.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=267427398&url_num=20&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fnews%2Frelea ses%2F2003%2F05%2F20030501-15.html)." Standing under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished (http://capweb.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=267427398&url_num=21&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2003%2FALLPOLITICS% 2F05%2F01%2Fbush.carrier.landing%2F),"

Kestra

05-02-2007, 11:56 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0502.html#article)

1994 Nelson Mandela claimed victory in South Africa's first democratic elections.

Kestra

05-03-2007, 10:52 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0503.html#article)

2001 The United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

Kestra

05-04-2007, 11:44 AM

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. go to Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0504.html#article)

1886 A labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday at Haymarket Square in Chicago turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.

1945 German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender as World War II drew to a close.

2006 A federal judge sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks.

Kestra

05-05-2007, 11:19 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0505.html#article)

1893 Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression.

1925 John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. looks like we've come full circle on this one.

1945 In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.

Kestra

05-06-2007, 11:38 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0506.html#article)

1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the United States for 10 years.

1942 Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.

1997 Hemophiliacs who contracted AIDS between 1978 and 1985 from tainted blood products accepted a $600 million settlement from four health-care companies.

Kestra

05-07-2007, 11:54 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0507.html#article)

1992 A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified when Michigan became the 38th state to approve it.

Kestra

05-08-2007, 11:54 AM

On May 8, 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0508.html#article)

1945 President Harry S. Truman announced in a radio address that World War II had ended in Europe.

1970 The album "Let It Be" by the Beatles was released.

Kestra

05-09-2007, 11:58 AM

On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0509.html#article)

1913 The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was ratified.

1960 The Food and Drug Administration approved use of a birth control pill.

1974 The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

Kestra

05-10-2007, 01:02 PM

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0510.html#article)

1908 The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia.

1933 The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.

1968 Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.

2005 A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans.

2005 Germany dedicated its new national Holocaust memorial.

Kestra

05-11-2007, 11:37 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0511.html#article)

1858 Minnesota became the 32nd state.

1910 Glacier National Park in Montana was established.

1944 Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy.

Kestra

05-12-2007, 12:08 PM

On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. Go To Artcile (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0512.html#article)

1949 The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade..

1965 West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations.

2002 Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
i find it interesting that visiting Cuba is prohibited by U.S. and yet our current Admin has a torture prison there.

2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers brought the Texas House to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.

Kestra

05-13-2007, 11:20 AM

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0513.html#article)

1607 An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.

1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.

1958 Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

Kestra

05-14-2007, 09:55 AM

On May 14, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end. Go To Ariticle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0514.html#article)

1787 Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox.

1942 The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.

1955 Representatives from the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland.

1973 The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.

2001 The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.

Kestra

05-15-2007, 10:59 AM

On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0515.html#article)

1918 U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.

1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.

1940 Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.

1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.

2003 Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma that temporarily succeeded in killing a redistricting plan they opposed.

2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity.

2006 The Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.

2006 The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states and said it would restore normal diplomatic relations.

Kestra

05-16-2007, 10:58 AM

On May 16, 1868, the United States Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. (Johnson was acquitted of all charges.) Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0516.html#article)

1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

1920 Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.

1929 The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

2005 Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. (She was later sentenced to six months in prison.)
six months, that's even more disgusting than the atrocities she committed.

Kestra

05-17-2007, 11:42 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0517.html#article)

1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.

1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides.

1973 The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.

1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors. Iraq and the United States called the attack a mistake.

1996 President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Megan's Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.

2004 Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.

i'm posting this because he was a Knight:
birthday,
Albert
5/17/1490 - 3/20/1568
Prussian duke (1525-68) and last grand master of the Teutonic Knights (1510-1525)

Kestra

05-18-2007, 10:32 AM

On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0518.html#article)
i remember this day, we heard 5 successive explosions. it was also a sunny day, much like today. we were getting ready to go to a flea market.

1642 The Canadian city of Montreal was founded.

1897 A public reading of Bram Stoker's new novel "Dracula, or, The Un-dead" was staged in London.

1969 Apollo 10 was launched on a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.

Kestra

05-19-2007, 10:49 AM

On May 19, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0519.html#article)

1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1964 The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

1967 The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
and then came Reagan, giggles and Darth.

1992 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" because the title character chose to have a child out of wedlock.
i remember that, he went to 'war' with a fictional character. he always reminded me of an empty-headed pooch waiting for someone to throw a ball for him.:Puppy:

1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
personally, i think they should get minimum wage, then we'd see minimum wage greater than $5.15 hr.

1994 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.
whoa, she died on JFK’s birthday.

2004 Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits wept and apologized after receiving a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge in the first court-martial stemming from abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
a lousy frickin year!

2005 "Revenge of the Sith," the final chapter of the "Star Wars" saga, opened in movie theaters.

2006 A key U.N. panel joined European and United Nations leaders in urging the Bush administration to close its prison in Guantanamo Bay, saying the indefinite detention of terror suspects there violated the world's ban on torture.
:hmm: oh, butt U.S. doesn't torture. :liar2:

Mriana

05-19-2007, 12:21 PM

I posted several months back, the U.N.'s charges against the Shrub for violating Human Rights and the Geneva Convention. I don't know if I can find it again, but he's been in trouble with the U.N. for a while now and had us withdrawal from the U.N. because he didn't like what they had to say. :eyeroll: If the truth hurts...

Kestra

05-20-2007, 10:17 AM

well, he doesn't like anyone saying contrary things to what he "believes"

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0520.html#article)

1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.

1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba.

1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.

1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.

1989 Comedian Gilda Radner died of cancer at age 42. :(

1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.

2004 Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.
isn't (wasn't) Chalabi giggles little darling in the lead up to the Iraq invasion?

Mriana

05-20-2007, 10:32 AM

1989 Comedian Gilda Radner died of cancer at age 42. :(

That was a sad time. She had a lot of talent and it is sorely missed.

Kestra

05-21-2007, 10:33 AM

On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0521.html#article)

1832 The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore.

1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber.

1999 Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera "All My Children," won a Daytime Emmy Award for best actress for the first time in the 19th straight year she was nominated.

Kestra

05-22-2007, 11:18 AM

On May 22, 1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0522.html#article)

1761 The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued, in Philadelphia.

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a "Pact of Steel" committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.

1969 The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.

1972 The island nation of Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka with the adoption of a new constitution.
:HEHE: Cylons :D

1998 Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland cast ballots giving resounding approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord.

2003 The U.N. Security Council gave the U.S. and Britain a mandate to rule Iraq, ending 13 years of economic sanctions.
:hmm:

2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kestra

05-23-2007, 09:36 AM

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. Go to Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0523.html#article)

1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.

1992 The United States and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal, to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
and then came the Bush regime.

1997 Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.

2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.
3 times he gave the richest 1% in this country tax cuts.

Kestra

05-24-2007, 09:51 AM

On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was opened to traffic. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0524.html#article)

1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Md.

1844 Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he opened America's first telegraph line.

1962 Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.

1976 Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.

1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

2001 Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.

Kestra

05-25-2007, 11:20 AM

On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0525.html#article)

here's what the religious fascists of today have to say about that trial.

Christianity in America was dealt a serious blow at the infamous Scopes Trial of 1925. After our hollow victory, Christians retreated from American public life with their tails tucked between their legs. Over the next 50 years, we allowed Secular Humanism to replace Christianity as the official religion of America. As a result, cherished freedoms to express our Christian faith were eroded before our eyes. The killing of pre-born babies was legalized. Violent crime rose to staggering levels in our nation's history. The quality of education plummeted to new depths. It wasn't until 1975, and the "born-again" era, that Christians began to re-emerge and re-engage the culture once again.

Thankfully, Christians have made remarkable progress since 1975. Great ministries and organizations have arisen out of the Church to debunk the theory of evolution, challenge the ACLU, disciple Christians, and minister to the needy. Home education and private education have exploded exponentially—producing godly and well-educated children. Yet, with all the ground we've taken back from the secular humanists, there's still much work to be done
.

1787 The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.

1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.

1935 Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.

1961 President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

1986 An estimated seven million people participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.

1997 Polish voters adopted a constitution that removed the last traces of communism.

2004 The Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would close 65 of 357 parishes because of financial problems caused in part by the clergy sex abuse scandal.

2006 Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall. (Lay died in July from heart disease and his convictions were vacated; Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison.)

Kestra

05-26-2007, 10:42 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0526.html#article)

1521 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs.

1896 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94

1940 The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.

1969 Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.

1994 President Bill Clinton renewed trade privileges for China and announced his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.

1998 The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island - historic gateway for millions of immigrants - is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.

2002 Barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls, Okla., causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people.

2004 Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. (He later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)

Mriana

05-26-2007, 02:04 PM

1521 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs.

He was charged with heresy and threatened to be excommunicated, but his friends who supported him, hid him out for a while until charges were dropped. Even so, that did not stop the Lutheran church from being formed.

Kestra

05-27-2007, 08:57 AM

On May 27, 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0527.html#article)

1647 Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn.

1896 A tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill., killing 255 people.

1935 The Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.

1963 The album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," which featured the song "Blowin' in the Wind," was released.

1999 A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo. (Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial.)

2006 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed at least 5,800 people.

Kestra

05-28-2007, 10:15 AM

On May 28, 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0528.html#article)

1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.

1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.

1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.

1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.

1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.

2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.

2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts. for the ultra rich.

2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

Kestra

05-29-2007, 10:21 AM

On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. Go To Artcle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0529.html#article)

1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.

1969 The self-titled debut album by Crosby, Stills and Nash was released.

1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.

1988 President Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

1990 Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.

1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.

:hmm: think they knew anything about 9\11?

Kestra

05-30-2007, 12:48 PM

On May 30, 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0530.html#article)

1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.

1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.

1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1943 American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

1989 Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."

2002 A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
and still, 2 years later New Orleans is still in shambles.

Dot

05-31-2007, 08:35 AM

Mr. Doohan said this was his favourtie line: "Admiral, there be whales here!"

Thought this deserved to be here

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Scientists observing the wayward wanderings of two humpback whales in a California river have more to celebrate than their return to the Pacific Ocean.

The duo provided an unexpected opportunity to study the endangered species.

The information scientists gathered includes sound recordings, logs of their behavior and tissue samples from both the mother and calf.

It which will be analyzed to determine whether they come from a pod of whales that travel between Mexico and California. (Watch whales make steady progress down Sacramento River )

"All those things are very hard to get. So what we are doing is filling up the knowledge bank on humpback whales in the wild," said Jim Oswald, a spokesman for the nonprofit Marine Mammal Center, a private scientific and rescue organization.

The experience also could prove helpful in approaching other stranded whales, he said.

After spending more than two weeks trying to coax the whales back to sea with mixed results, officials are ready to declare Operation Humpback a success.

Since the previously conspicuous whales had not been seen for a full day, officials assumed the duo found their way home, undoing a wrong turn that inspired a range of rescue attempts.

:clap2: :clap: :woohoo: :yhoo:

byebye kiddos live long and prosper :wave2:

((and stay the hell out of the japanese whale nets))

The whales, believed to be a mother and calf, were last observed at sunset Tuesday swimming in San Francisco Bay about 10 miles north of the city

Kestra

05-31-2007, 10:20 AM

Spock, "the whales like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales."

On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0531.html#article)

1910 The Union of South Africa was founded.

1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.

1961 South Africa became an independent republic.

1962 Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.

1970 An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.

1989 House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign.

1994 The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.

2005 Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Kestra

06-01-2007, 11:35 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0601.html#article)

1792 Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.

1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.

1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.

1944 The British Broadcasting Corp. aired a coded message intended to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

1967 The album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles was released.

1980 CNN made its debut.

2004 A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose.

2006 A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

Mriana

06-01-2007, 01:01 PM

1967 The album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles was released.

Oh geeze! Now you got the song stuck in my head. :(

Mod_Kes

06-01-2007, 06:11 PM

:LOL: well then, just stick your fingers in your ears and go: :lala:

Mriana

06-01-2007, 09:31 PM

:LOL: That would work if it weren't stuck in my head. OK let's try this one: We're so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we haven't done a bloody thing all day. We're so sorry, Uncle Albert.

Kestra

06-02-2007, 09:00 AM

:LOL:

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0602.html#article)

1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."

1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.

1946 The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.

1995 A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later.

1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.

2006 Canadian authorities announced they had foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects.

Kestra

06-03-2007, 09:53 AM

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to ``walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0603.html#article)

1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.

1808 Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Christian County, Ky.

1888 The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.

1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989 Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.

1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.

2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.

Kestra

06-05-2007, 11:28 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0605.html#article)

1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power. :hmm: interesting. those from foreign powers can enlist in our military service. in fact, it's being offered to those of foreign lands in exchange for US citizenship once their tour of duties are over.

1884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

1933 The United States went off the gold standard.

1940 The Battle of France began during World War II.

1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall, speaking at Harvard University, outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan.

1967 War erupted in the Middle East as Israel raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.

1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.

2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

2006 An Islamic militia with alleged links to al-Qaida seized Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of fighting with U.S.-backed secular warlords.

2006 Serbian lawmakers proclaimed their Balkan republic a sovereign state after Montenegro decided to split from a union and dissolve the remnants of what was once Yugoslavia.

Kestra

06-06-2007, 10:41 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0606.html#article)

1844 The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.

1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.

1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, N.J.

1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission was established.

1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

1978 California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes.

1990 A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ruled that the 2 Live Crew album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was obscene. The decision was overturned on appeal.

2001 Democrats assumed control of the U.S. Senate when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent.

2005 The Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
:smoke:

Mriana

06-06-2007, 03:30 PM

1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

It was a sad day around the world. :(

Kestra

06-07-2007, 10:45 AM

yes it was.

On June 7, 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0607.html#article)

1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.

1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.

1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

1948 The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.

1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."

2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.

2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Kestra

06-08-2007, 10:28 AM

On June 8, 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0608.html#article)

1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.

1948 The "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host.

1953 The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.

1978 A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.

1987 Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.

1995 U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.

Kestra

06-09-2007, 10:55 AM

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?'' Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0609.html#article)

1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.

1973 Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.

1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

2004 The Federal Communications Commission agreed to a record $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.

today our favourite pirate:

Johnny Depp turns 44 years old today.
and
46 Michael J. Fox

Kestra

06-10-2007, 10:01 AM

On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. Go To Ariticle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0610.html#article)

1801 The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.

1940 Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.

1946 Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.

1964 The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.

1977 James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.

1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.

Kestra

06-11-2007, 10:45 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0611.html#article)

1776 The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two blacks to enroll at the school.

1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31. and then came Bush.

1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. "constitutional right to abortion."

1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.

1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.

2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral in Washington, D.C. Hours later he was laid to rest in California.

Hugh Laurie turns 48 years old today.

Kestra

06-12-2007, 11:00 AM

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.'' Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0612.html#article)

1665 England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1776 Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.

1838 The Iowa Territory was organized.

1898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home; her former husband, football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action.

1996 Senate Republicans chose Trent Lott of Mississippi to succeed Bob Dole as majority leader.

1997 The Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.

1999 Thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a hero's welcome from Serb residents.

2006 Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Muhajer.

15 Anne Frank
6/12/1929 - 3/?/1945

Mriana

06-12-2007, 01:17 PM

[FONT=Verdana]1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home; her former husband, football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action.

My older son thought their daughter was cute. :D Puppy love. :Plove: It's so sweet even from a far. (via seeing her on TV)

Kestra

06-14-2007, 11:18 AM

On June 14, 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0614.html#article)

1775 The United States Army was founded.

1777 The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

1841 The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

1846 A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.

1922 Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.

1928 The Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president.

1940 German troops entered Paris during World War II.

1940 The Nazis opened a concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.

1943 The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs.

1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
yes, it was done purely for political reasons to 'prove' to the communists that US is a "god fearing country" and they were godless barbarians.

2002 American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.

Mriana

06-14-2007, 04:16 PM

2002 American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.

Now what are they going to do beside be sequestered and protected by the Church? You know, I read somewhere that the Church started out with a lot of looneys involved. This really makes you wonder. Hide them out without any treatment and what do you get? Bedlam.

Kestra

06-15-2007, 10:56 AM

the foxes gaurding the henhouse.

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0615.html#article)

1215 King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, granting his barons more liberty.

1775 The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.

1836 Arkansas became the 25th state.

1844 Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.

1846 The United States and Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States in the Pacific Northwest.

1864 Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery.

1992 Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously instructed a Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell potato as "potatoe" during a spelling bee. he always reminded me of a dog waiting for someone to throw a ball.

1995 During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves that prosecutors said were worn by the killer of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. what a joke that was, he was wearing latex gloves so naturally the gloves he used to kill them wouldn't slide on easily.

2005 The autopsy on Terri Schiavo was released, backing the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state. so much for those arm chair diagnoses.

2006 A divided Supreme Court made it easier for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting.

Kestra

06-16-2007, 10:23 AM

On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0616.html#article)

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.

1858 Abraham Lincoln, paraphrasing a Bible passage, argued that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" in a speech to the state Repbulican convention in Springfield, Ill., after he was nominated for the U.S. Senate.

1897 The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.

1903 Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.

1963 The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6. it would appear Russia is more progressive than US.

1967 The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California. freedoms just another word for nothin else to loose. :boogie:

1976 Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1978 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.

1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair. (He was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.)

1996 Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.

2000 Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation's largest local phone company, Verizon.

2004 Rebuffing Bush administration claims, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said no evidence existed that al-Qaida had strong ties to Saddam Hussein. oops, silly giggles got caught lying about links to Saddam and Osama.

Kestra

06-17-2007, 09:55 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0617.html#article)

1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War.

1789 The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly and undertook to frame a constitution.

1856 The Republican Party opened its first convention, in Philadelphia.

1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

1940 France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.

1944 The republic of Iceland was established.

1963 The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or the reading of Biblical verses in public schools.

1972 President Richard Nixon's downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex.

1994 After leading police on a chase through Southern California, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.

2006 Officials in Chechnya reported police had killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev by acting on a tip from within his network.

Kestra

06-18-2007, 08:34 AM

On June 18, 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0618.html#article)

1812 The United States declared war against Britain.

1815 British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.

1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.

1940 With the World War II Battle of Britain looming, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves so that future generations would say, "this was their finest hour."

1948 Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/2 rpm phonograph record.

1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983 Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

2004 An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheaded American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., posting grisly photographs of his severed head on the Internet; hours later, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and murder.

2004 European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.

2006 Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion.

Kestra

06-20-2007, 10:38 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0620.html#article)

1837 Queen Victoria, the longest serving monarch in British history, ascended the throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1863 West Virginia became the 35th state.

1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.

1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in two days later to quell the violence that left more than 30 people dead.

1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers.

1975 The movie "Jaws" was released. saw that movie, scared the waddens out of me!!!

1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent :innocent: in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.

1999 As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. Clinton had an exit strategy, interesting you never hear neocons use that "Clinton did it" one in comparison to giggles lack of an exit strategic.

2002 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel.

Kestra

06-21-2007, 10:22 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0621.html#article)

1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.

1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

1977 Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.

1982 A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.

1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

1997 The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut.

Kestra

06-22-2007, 08:40 AM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0622.html#article)

1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time.

1868 Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.

1870 Congress created the Department of Justice.

1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.

1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.

1945 The World War II battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.

1970 President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

1977 Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

1989 The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year civil war.

1992 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violate free-speech rights.

2004 A federal judge approved a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart.

Kestra

06-23-2007, 10:58 AM

On June 23, 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0623.html#article)

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."

1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.

1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1967 The Senate voted to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign money for personal uses. so why haven't those current politians who used campaign money for personal use not been censured?

1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.

1972 President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. sound familiar?

Kestra

06-24-2007, 08:58 AM

On June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0624.html#article)

1314 The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.

1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.

1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.

1948 Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift.

1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.

1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.

2003 President Vladimir Putin arrived in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.

2004 Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
of course it was closed doors, not under oath and Darth was holding his hand.... or shall i say: pulling the stings.

Kestra

06-25-2007, 11:40 AM

On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0625.html#article)

1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.

1950 War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

1951 The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.

1962 The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
so you see righty tightys, it's not just far religious rieght prayer in school that's unconstituional.

1967 The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
all you need is love
do do do do do
all you need is love
do do do do do
all you need is love
love
love
love is all you need... :boogie:
i just know Mraina's gonna yell at me for that. :veg: :exit:

1973 Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

1997 An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.

1998 The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional. aw and then came giggles with his "signing statements". :fprint:

2005 Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
oooOOOooo he was elected to office... giggles will have none of that, it's only a democracy when giggles says it's democracy. regime change! regime change!

Kestra

06-26-2007, 10:04 AM

On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). Go to Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0626.html#article)

1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., was opened to the public.
*Kes hums "Under the Boardwalk"*

1894 The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.

1917 The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.

1919 The New York Daily News was first published.

1945 The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

1990 President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package. "read my lips, feel my hips."

1996 The Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.

1998 The Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.

2000 Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code.

2003 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down state bans on gay sex.

Kestra

06-27-2007, 11:02 AM

On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0627.html#article)

1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

1893 The New York stock market crashed.

1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.

1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.

1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.

1985 Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.

1998 During a joint news conference broadcast live in China, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of differences on human rights, freedom, trade and Tibet.

2003 More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.

Kestra

06-28-2007, 11:48 AM

On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0628.html#article)

1836 James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va., at age 85.

1838 Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1894 Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.

1944 The Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president.

1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

1967 Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War.

1978 The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse discrimination.

1995 Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.

1996 The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

2000 Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits.

2000 The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. i've never been able to understand why are people so afraid of homosexuals.

2004 The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule. yeah, and it's all working so well.

2004 The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.

Kestra

06-29-2007, 10:53 AM

On June 29, 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0629.html#article)

1776 The Virginia state constitution was adopted.

1767 The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts, which imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.

1946 British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism.

1972 The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."

1992 A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined by the Roe v. Wade decision.

2001 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.

2002 President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. well there's the problem right there, Darth still thinks he's the Pres.

2006 RThe Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law. and then giggles promptly turned around and got his rubber-stamp 109th Congress to over-rule SC ruling.

Kestra

06-30-2007, 10:13 AM

On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0630.html#article)

1859 French acrobat Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope as 5,000 spectators watched.

1921 President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.

1934 Adolf Hitler began his "blood purge" of political and military leaders in Germany. Among those killed was one-time Hitler ally Ernst Roehm, leader of the Nazi stormtroopers.

1936 The novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell was published. "after all, tomorrow is another day."

1952 The radio soap opera "The Guiding Light" made its TV debut on CBS.

1971 The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the minimum voting age to 18, was ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it.

1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were found dead inside their spacecraft after it returned to Earth.

1985 Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.

1986 The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.

1994 The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
"i just wanted to win gold for my country." :cry:

2001 Doctors implanted a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
i wonder if it makes cappuccinos?

2004 The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit after a nearly seven year journey.

2005 Spain became the third country to legalize gay marriage.
:bfight:

Kestra

07-01-2007, 11:34 AM

On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0701.html#article)

1863 The Civil War Battle of Gettysburg began.

1867 Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.

1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1943 "Pay-as-you-go" income tax withholding began.

1946 The United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1963 The U.S. Post Office introduced five-digit ZIP codes.

1966 The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.

1968 The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1980 "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.

1987 President Ronald Reagan nominated federal appeals court judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. (Bork was later rejected by the Senate.)

1991 President George H.W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
aw, the first perv to serve as Supreme Court Judge... remember Anita Hill?

2000 Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage.

2000 The Confederate flag was removed from atop South Carolina's Statehouse.

2002 Chile's Supreme Court ruled that former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was suffering from dementia and dropped all charges against him for human rights violations during his regime. :hmm: maybe giggles and Darth will claim "dementia".

2004 Saddam Hussein made a defiant first public appearance in an Iraqi court since being captured seven months earlier, scoffing at charges of war crimes and mass killings.

2005 Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, announced her retirement. if only she could have waited 4 more years.

Dot

07-02-2007, 06:38 AM

Today marks the fourth anniversary of one of Bush's most memorable and -- he has said -- most regrettable lines. Asked about insurgent attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, the president responded with what many observers perceived as a taunt: "Bring 'em on."
:duel: :Pol:

At the time, Bush's words drew frowns from those who found them unbecoming, from the President of the United States.

Now, given how events have unfolded, they are downright haunting.

Bush has since acknowledged that his response "sent the wrong signal to people :doh:

The words came two months after another famous Bush quote, this one spoken from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

Kestra

07-03-2007, 11:48 AM

what a looser. and now he commuted Scooters sentence because in giggles own words "it was excessive". and his "family has suffered enough". never mind all those ppl who died and have suffered since the outing of one of our most covert operatives who actually provided accurate intel.

On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0703.html#article)

1608 The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.

1775 Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.

1890 Idaho became the 43rd state.

1898 The U.S. Navy defeated a Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.

1930 Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.

1962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.

1997 In his first formal response to charges by Paula Jones of sexual harassment, President Bill Clinton denied all allegations in her lawsuit, and asked a judge to dismiss the case.

2001 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.

2005 A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.

Kestra

07-04-2007, 09:37 AM

On July 4, 1976, the United States celebrated its Bicentential. In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0704.html#article)

1802 The U.S. Military Academy opened at West Point, N.Y.

1845 American writer Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

1946 The Philippines became independent.

1959 A 49th star was added to the American flag to represent the new state of Alaska.

1960 The number of stars on the American flag was increased to 50 to honor the new state of Hawaii.

1976 Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing almost all of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers.

1976 America celebrated its bicentennial.

1987 Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.

2004 A 20-ton slab of granite, inscribed to honor "the enduring spirit of freedom," was laid at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower.

96 Mitch Miller
Bandleader follow the bouncing ball... the birth of Karaoke.

Kestra

07-05-2007, 12:59 PM

On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0705.html#article)

1811 Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.

1830 The French occupied the North African city of Algiers.

1865 William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.

1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.

1946 The bikini made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris.
Oo la la!

1954 Elvis Presley's first commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn.

1975 The Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.

1989 Former National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in Iran-Contra. The convictions were later overturned.

1991 Regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, charging it with fraud, drug money laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system.

1997 Martina Hingis, 16, became the youngest Wimbledom singles champion in 110 years as she beat Jana Novotna in the women's final.

2006 North Korea test-fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including at least one believed capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

2006 Enron founder Kenneth Lay, who was facing decades in prison for one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, died at age 64.

Kestra

07-06-2007, 10:06 AM

On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0706.html#article)

1483 England's King Richard III was crowned.

1535 Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.

1777 British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

1854 The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.

1917 Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks during World War I.

1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.

1928 The first all-talking movie feature, "The Lights of New York," was shown in New York.

1944 Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.

1957 Teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.

1989 The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas.

1997 The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks. :greetings

2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts.

2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose former rival John Edwards, a North Carolina senator, to be his running mate.

2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. (Miller was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify.) of course receiving a little anthrax in the mail probably gave her a little incentive to remain silent.

Kestra

07-07-2007, 11:33 AM

On July 7, 1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0707.html#article)

1846 U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1865 Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

1898 The United States annexed Hawaii.

1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.

1946 Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.

1954 Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." :boogie:

1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.

1987 Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization.

1999 A jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses. and then came along the new Supreme Court.

2004 Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on criminal charges related to the energy company's collapse.

2006 Terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.

Kestra

07-08-2007, 07:38 AM

On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0708.html#article)

1663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.

1776 Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

1853 An expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.

1889 The Wall Street Journal was first published.

1919 President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1986 Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.

2004 Enron founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay pleaded innocent to charges related to the energy company's collapse. (Lay was later convicted on 10 counts, including fraud and conspiracy. He died of heart disease in July 2006 while his case was on appeal.)

2004 Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted in New York of looting the cable company and deceiving investors.

2006 Four more U.S. soldiers were charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman and the killings of her relatives in Mahmoudiya.

Dot

07-10-2007, 11:58 AM

on this day :D

BEND, Ore. - Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.

With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky.

Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.
"When you're a little kid and you're holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind," Couch told the Bend Bulletin.
"When you're laying in the grass on a summer day, and you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them," he said. "This is as close as you can come to jumping on them. It's just like that."

Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters — who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.

It was Couch's second flight.
In September, he got off the ground for six hours. Like Walters, he used a BB gun to pop the balloons, but he went into a rapid descent and eventually parachuted to safety.

This time, he was better prepared. The balloons had a new configuration, so it was easier to reach up and release a bit of helium instead of simply cutting off a balloon.
He took off at 6:06 a.m. Saturday after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye and petting his Chihuahua, Isabella. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below.
Couch said he could hear cattle and children, and he said he even passed through clouds.
"It was beautiful — beautiful," he told KTVZ-TV. He described the flight as mostly peaceful and serene, with occasional turbulence, like a hot-air balloon ride sitting down.
Couch decided to stop when he was down to a gallon of water and just eight pounds of ballast. Concerned about the rugged terrain outside La Grande, including Hells Canyon, he decided it was time to land.

He popped enough balloons to set the craft down, although he suffered rope burns. But after he jumped out, the wind grabbed his chair, with his video recorder, and the remaining balloons and swept them away. He's hoping to get them back some day.

Brandon Wilcox, owner of Professional Air, which charters and maintains planes at the Bend airport, on Thursday confirmed Couch's flight. Wilcox said he flew a plane nearby while Couch traveled, and a passenger videotaped the flying lawn chair.

Way to go Kent..dream big..

Dot

07-14-2007, 09:29 AM

On this day in 1798, one of the most egregious breaches of the U.S. Constitution in history becomes federal law when Congress passes the Sedition Act, endangering liberty in the fragile new nation.

While the United States engaged in naval hostilities with Revolutionary France, known as the Quasi-War, Alexander Hamilton and congressional Federalists took advantage of the publics wartime fears and drafted and passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, without first consulting President John Adams.

The first three acts took aim at the rights of immigrants.

The president gained the power to detain and deport those he deemed enemies. President Adams never took advantage of his newfound ability to deny rights to immigrants.

However, the fourth act, the Sedition Act, was put into practice and became a black mark on the nation's reputation.

In direct violation of the Constitutions guarantee of freedom of speech, the Sedition Act permitted the prosecution of individuals who voiced or printed what the government deemed to be malicious remarks about the president or government of the United States. They were declared enemy's of the state.

Fourteen people mainly journalists, were prosecuted, and some imprisoned, under the act.

In opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison drafted the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, declaring the acts to be a violation of the First and Tenth Amendments.

President Adams, appalled at where Hamilton and the congressional Federalists were leading the country under the guise of wartime crisis, ended the undeclared war with France and undercut their efforts.
Adams succeeded in quashing Hamilton and the Federalists schemes.

On this day in 1945 the first atom bomb was tested.

Kestra

07-15-2007, 09:59 AM

and it seems the current Admin is trying the same shenanigans again.

On July 15, 1918, the Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0715.html#article)

1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1916 The Boeing Co. was founded in Seattle by William Boeing as Pacific Aero Products.

1948 President Harry S. Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

1964 Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

1971 President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."

1996 MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet.

1999 The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.

2002 John Walker Lindh, an American who had fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison.

Kestra

07-16-2007, 09:50 AM

On July 16, 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0716.html#article)

1790 The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. government.

1945 The United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb, in the desert near Alamogordo, N.M.

1957 Marine Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.

1969 Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the moon.

1973 Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings.

1979 Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

1980 Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.

1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister died when the single-engine plane Kennedy was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

2004 Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale.

Kestra

07-17-2007, 11:32 AM

On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0717.html#article)

1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1898 Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces during the Spanish-American War.

1917 With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.

1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.

1948 Southern Democrats opposed to the nomination of President Harry S. Truman met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond.

1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

1979 Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami.

1997 Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 five-and-dime stores, laying off 9,200 employees.

2004 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger mockingly used the term "girlie men" during a rally as he claimed Democrats were delaying the state budget by catering to special interests.

2005 The Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiites.

Kestra

07-18-2007, 12:17 PM

On July 18, 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in North Africa. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0718.html#article)

1536 The authority of the pope was declared void in England.

1872 Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.

1940 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.

1944 Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.

1984 Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.

1998 A 23-foot tidal wave along the coast of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.

2003 The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found, an apparent suicide.

2005 An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.

guess he's only pro-life for the unborn.

Kestra

07-19-2007, 10:57 AM

On July 19, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0719.html#article)

1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed queen.

1848 A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1870 The Franco-Prussian war, which led to the unification of the German states, began.

1969 Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

1984 Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.

1993 President Bill Clinton announced the "don't ask, don't tell," which allows homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrain from homosexual activity.

so i wonder: are heteros also told they must "refrain from heterosexual activity" whilst serving in the military as well? or does "refraining from homosexuality activity" mean homosexuals serving in the military can have sex with opposites?

2005 President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005).

2006 President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that could have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.

Kestra

07-20-2007, 10:33 AM

On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0720.html#article) "one small step for a man..."

1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.

1861 The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.

1871 British Columbia joined the confederation as a Canadian province.

1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.

1917 The World War I draft lottery began.

1942 The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

1944 Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the German leader's Rastenburg headquarters.

1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars. :greetings

1977 A flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.

1990 A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North's Iran-Contra convictions.

1993 White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington in an apparent suicide.

1997 Seven people were arrested after New York City police found scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for smugglers who had brought them to the United States.

1999 After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.

Kestra

07-21-2007, 08:36 AM

On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0721.html#article)

1831 Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.

1861 The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

1944 American forces landed on Guam during World War II.

1944 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president.

1949 The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.

1954 France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.

1955 During the Geneva summit, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the United States and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities.

1961 Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7. (Grissom returned safely but the capsule sank in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after splashdown.)

1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.

1980 Draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.

1988 Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.

2000 Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993.

2002 Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.

Kestra

07-22-2007, 10:30 AM

On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago. Go To Articl (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0722.html#article)

1587 A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. :abduct:

1796 The city of Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people.

1933 American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.

1937 The Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1943 American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.

1946 Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing about 100 people.

1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. :liar2: "i didn't kill them, but if i did, this is how i would have done it."

1998 Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
maybe giggles will try to pass this off as 'current' intel so he can use that as an argument that he better bomb Iran! :eyeroll:

2003 Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.

2003 Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.and then came the lies about what really happened to her.

2004 The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks. :hmm: do tell, that sorta got swept under the rug. but Condi claimed the memo about: "Osama Determined to attack U.S." was viewed as just a "history lesson".

2006 Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from the Hezbollah guerrilla group.

Kestra

07-23-2007, 11:19 AM

On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0723.html#article)

1829 William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter.

1904 By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

1945 French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.

1952 Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.

1984 Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.

2000 Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.

2003 Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.

Kestra

07-24-2007, 08:39 AM

During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a discussion at a U.S. exhibition with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was dubbed the ''kitchen debate.'' Go To Artilcle (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0724.html#article)

1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.

1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.

1929 President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy. and then came giggles who adopted "war" as his foreign policy.

1937 The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case.

1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts, two of whom had become the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.

1974 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that President Richard M. Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

1979 A Miami jury convicted Ted Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy.

1990 Iraq massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along its border with Kuwait.

1998 A gunman opened fire in the U.S. Capitol, killing two police officers before being shot and captured.

2002 The U.S. House expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion.

2005 Lance Armstrong closed out his cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.

Kestra

07-25-2007, 10:37 AM

On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0725.html#article)

1593 France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

1866 Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.

1868 Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.

1946 The United States detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1978 The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.

1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old state of war.

1995 A U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, and 22 other Serbs for war crimes.

2000 Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2006 Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold and widened their control of southern Lebanon; an Israeli airstrike hit a U.N. border outpost, killing four observers.
:hmm: i wonder what they saw that they weren’t suppose to.

Kestra

07-26-2007, 10:30 AM

On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0726.html#article)

1775 Benjamin Franklin became postmaster-general.

1788 New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution.

1908 Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating an investigative agency that was a forerunner of the FBI.

1945 Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labor Party. Clement Attlee became the new prime minister.

1948 President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.

1952 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1953 Fidel Castro began a revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba.

1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.

1964 Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.

1971 Apollo 15 was launched on a manned mission to the moon.

1990 The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., for ethics violations.

1990 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman, later identified as Kimberly Bergalis, had been infected with the AIDS virus apparently by her dentist.

1990 President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act.

2000 A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.

2005 Greg Maddux of the Chicago Cubs became the 13th pitcher in major league history to record his 3,000 career strikeout, in a game against the San Francisco Giants. :doh:

2006 A jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in a bathtub in the second trial she faced on the charges; she was committed to a state mental hospital.

Kestra

07-27-2007, 11:39 AM

On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0727.html#article)

1694 The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.

1789 Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department.

1794 French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.

1861 Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac.

1866 After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1940 Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."

1960 Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1967 In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence.

1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.

1996 A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100.

2003 Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title.

2005 NASA said a sizable chunk of foam insulation came flying off the shuttle Discovery's fuel bank during liftoff, prompting the space agency to ground future shuttle flights until the problem could be fixed.

2005 Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a judge in Seattle.

Kestra

07-28-2007, 11:53 AM

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. World War I began as declarations of war by other European nations quickly followed. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0728.html#article)

1540 King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed. The same day, Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. now there's the wedding gift to remember.

1794 Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.

1821 Peru declared its independence from Spain.

1868 The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process and the equal protection of the laws to former slaves, was declared in effect.

1896 The city of Miami, Fla., was incorporated.

1932 Federal troops forcibly dispersed the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand money they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945.

1945 The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter.

1945 A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building, killing 14 people. oops.

1959 In preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L. Fong, to the Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye, to the House of Representatives.

1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. gee, that worked out well.

1976 An earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people.

1995 A jury in Union, S.C., sentenced Susan Smith to life in prison for drowning her two young sons.

1998 Bell Atlantic and GTE announced a $52 billion merger that created Verizon.

1998 Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Bill Clinton.

2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., were rescued after 77 hours underground.

2002 Cycling champion Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France.

2004 The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for president.

2005 The Irish Republican Army renounced the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm.

Kestra

07-29-2007, 10:58 AM

35 Wil Wheaton
Actor

Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0729.html#article)

1588 The English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines.

1914 Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco. :Phone:

1957 Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.

1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.

1966 Rock musician Bob Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, N.Y.

1967 Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen.

1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.

1975 President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.

1993 The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible" and threw out his death sentence.

1997 Minamata Bay in Japan - once a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution - was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.

2003 Boston Red Sox batter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game in a 14-7 win at Texas.

2006 The U.S. command announced it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell sectarian violence sweeping the Iraqi capital.

Kestra

07-30-2007, 11:40 AM

On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters. Go To Artilce (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0730.html#article)

1619 The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va.

1729 The city of Baltimore was founded.

1792 The French national anthem "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.

1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES.

1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law.

1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed on the moon.

2002 Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.

2002 WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game during her team's 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.

Kestra

07-31-2007, 10:51 AM

On July 31, 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon's surface. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0731.html#article)

1777 The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.

1914 The New York Stock Exchange closed due to the outbreak of World War I. Trading didn't resume until December.

1919 Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted.

1948 President Harry S. Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.

1972 Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.

1989 A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape purportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.

1990 Nolan Ryan became the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games as his Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-3.

1991 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

1995 The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion deal.

1997 New York City police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on subways.

2006 Cuban President Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother, Raul, after gastrointestinal surgery.

Kestra

08-01-2007, 08:04 AM

On August 1, 1936, 100,000 saluted Adolf Hitler on his entrance at the opening of the Berlin Olympics. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0801.html#article)

On August 1, 1863, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Draft Riot in New York City. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0801.html)

1790 The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.

1876 Colorado was admitted to the union as the 38th state.

1907 The U.S. Air Force had its beginnings as the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division.

1914 Germany declared war on Russia at the onset of World War I.

1946 President Harry S. Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. J. William Fulbright.

1946 The Atomic Energy Commission was established.

1957 The United States and Canada reached agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

1978 Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak - the second longest in major league history - came to an end as the Cincinnati Reds star went hitless in a game against the Atlanta Braves. :arge:

1981 The music video cable channel MTV made its debut.

1995 Westinghouse Electric Corp. struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.

2004 The federal government warned of possible al-Qaida terrorist attacks against specific financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J.

2005 President George W. Bush used a recess appointment to install John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, bypassing the Senate after a testy standoff with Democrats. :king: Senate? what Senate? there's a Senate? :huh:

Kestra

08-02-2007, 08:32 AM

On Aug. 2, 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0802.html#article)

On August 2, 1884, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1884. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0802.html)

1776 Members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

1921 A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series.

1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.

1939 Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.

1943 A Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.

1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.

1964 The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.

1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate.

2000 Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

2003 Liberian President Charles Taylor agreed to cede power.

Kestra

08-03-2007, 08:04 AM

On Aug. 3, 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0803.html#article)

On August 3, 1878, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about famed agnostic Robert Ingersoll. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0803.html)

1492 Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that would take him to the present-day Americas.

1778 The opera house La Scala opened in Milan, Italy, with a performance of Antonio Salieri's "Europa riconosciuta."

1852 America's first intercollegiate athletic event was held as Yale and Harvard met for a crew race on Lake Winnipesaukee in Center Harbor, N.H.

1914 Germany declared war on France.

1914 At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.

1943 Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.

1948 Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.

1981 U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired.

1987 The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.

1993 The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.

1994 Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.

2003 Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam by winning the Women's British Open.

2004 The Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Kestra

08-04-2007, 08:50 AM

On Aug. 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0804.html#article)

On August 4, 1866, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Seven Weeks' (or Austro-Prussian) War. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0804.html)

1735 A jury acquitted John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of seditious libel.

1790 The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.

1830 Plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.

1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.

1916 The United States purchased the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.

1944 Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust.

1977 President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

1987 The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and TV stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.

1994 Serb-dominated Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia.

2005 A mini-submarine carrying seven Russians became caught on an underwater antenna 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean; the men were rescued three days later with help from a British vessel.

2006 Israeli warplanes destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon's last untouched highway, severing the country's final major connection to Syria.

Kestra

08-05-2007, 10:47 AM

On August 5, 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0805.html#article)

On August 5, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the gubernatorial campaign of Alexander Stephens, the former Confederate vice president. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0805.html)

1861 The federal government levied an income tax for the first time.

1864 Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala., during the Civil War.

1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.

1914 The first electric traffic lights were installed, in Cleveland.

1924 The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray made its debut.

1962 "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, made its network debut on ABC.

1966 The album "Revolver" by the Beatles was released.

1969 The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data.

2002 The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic.

Kestra

08-06-2007, 10:48 AM

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0806.html#article)

On August 6, 1904, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the 1904 presidential campaign. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0806.html)

1787 The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.

1806 The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis I abdicated.

1825 Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany.

1926 Warner Brothers premiered its "Vitaphone" sound-on-disc movie system in New York.

1926 Gertrude Ederle of New York became the first American woman to swim the English Channel.

1962 Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.

1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

1965 The album "Help!" by the Beatles was released. :band:

1997 British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook hands with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in the first meeting in 76 years between a British leader and the IRA's allies.

1997 Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.

1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton. pretty amazing with how hard the gop tried to get dirt on Clinton, that all they could come up with was Monica. just shows how 'squeaky' clean Clinton must be. not to mention how low reps set the bar on impeachement.

1998 A House committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising.

2005 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President Bush's ranch in Texas.

Kestra

08-07-2007, 11:24 AM

On Aug. 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on United States forces. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0807.html#article)

On August 7, 1886, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about federal taxes. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0807.html)

1782 George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.

1789 The War Department was established by Congress.

1912 The Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.

1934 The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the government's attempt to ban the James Joyce novel "Ulysses."

1942 U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.

1947 The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.

1959 The United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.

1971 Apollo 15 returned to Earth after a manned mission to the moon.

1974 French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.

1998 al Qaida set off bombs at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people - including 12 Americans - and injuring more than 5,500.

1990 President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.

2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.

2005 Seven people in a Russian mini-submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that snarled their vessel.

Kestra

08-11-2007, 09:21 AM

On Aug. 11, 1965, deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0811.html#article)

On August 11, 1900, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential nomination of William Jennings Bryan. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0811.html)

1909 The SOS distress signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, N.C.

1934 The first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.

1954 A formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and the Communist Vietminh.

1984 President Ronald Reagan joked during a voice test for a paid political radio address that he had "signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

1992 The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minn.

1997 President Bill Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills. (However, the Supreme Court later struck down the line-item veto as unconstitutional.)

1998 British Petroleum purchased Amoco for $49 billion in the biggest foreign takeover of a U.S. company.

2000 Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party presidential nomination in a victory bitterly disputed by party founder Ross Perot's supporters, who chose their own nominee in a rival convention.

2003 NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

2003 Charles Taylor resigned as Liberia's president and went into exile in Nigeria.

Kestra

08-13-2007, 10:04 AM

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0813.html#article)

On August 13, 1898, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about disease and the Spanish-American War. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0813.html)

1521 Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured present-day Mexico City from the Aztecs.

1704 The Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English and Austrian forces.

1899 Movie director Alfred Hitchcock was born in London.

1932 Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice-chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out "for all or nothing."

1934 The comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp made its debut.

1942 Walt Disney's animated feature "Bambi" premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

1960 The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1, a balloon satellite.

1981 President Ronald Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions in a ceremony at his California ranch.

2004 The 28th summer Olympic games opened in Athens.

75 Lucy Stone
8/13/1818 - 10/18/1893
American pioneer in the women's rights movement

Kestra

08-14-2007, 09:55 AM

On Aug. 14, 1945, President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0814.html#article)

On August 14, 1897, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about patent medicines and professional pharmacists. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0814.html)

1848 The Oregon Territory was established.

1900 International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.

1917 China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.

1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

1947 Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1969 British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

1973 U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980 Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.

1980 President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.

1996 The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.

1997 An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2003 A blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.

2006 Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.

2006 Cuban state television aired the first video of Fidel Castro since he stepped down as president to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Cuban leader talking with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Kestra

08-15-2007, 09:43 AM

On Aug. 15, 1947, India and Pakistan became independent after some 200 years of British rule. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0815.html#article)

On August 15, 1863, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the treatment of black prisoners of war during the Civil War. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0815.html)

1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.

1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.

1939 The MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz" premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. we're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz....

1944 Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II.

1945 The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.

1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.

1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.

1971 President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

2000 A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.

2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.

2005 Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline for finishing a new constitution.

2006 Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.

Kestra

08-16-2007, 10:04 AM

On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0816.html#article)

On August 16, 1879, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about hazing. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) (http://bbs.roddenberry.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0816.html)

1777 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.

1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.

1829 Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world. (The term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.)

1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.

1888 T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.

1913 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.

1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.

1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.

1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.

1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket. the trick to not being assinated is have a running mate no one would want as pres.

2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.

2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.

2003 A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident. (Janklow was later convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress.)

2006 John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. (Karr's confession that he had killed JonBenet was later discredited.)

Kestra

08-17-2007, 08:16 AM

On Aug. 17, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0817.html#article)

On August 17, 1895, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the race for the Republican presidential nomination of 1896. see cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0817.html)

1896 A prospecting party discovered gold in Alaska, a finding that touched off the Klondike gold rush.

1943 The Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.

1945 Indonesian nationalists declared independence from the Netherlands.

1948 Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in New York. Hiss repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.

1962 East German border guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.

1969 Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.

1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau prison in West Berlin at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord. Hess had been the only inmate at Spandau for 21 years.

1998 President Bill Clinton underwent grand jury questioning in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. oh, wasn't that a major threat to national security, civil rights, and the Constitution.

1998 Russia devalued the ruble.

2000 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president. what the hell were they thinking.

2002 Pope John Paul II arrived in Krakow, Poland, for the ninth and final visit to his native country during his papacy.

2005 Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of Jews from four settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Kestra

08-18-2007, 01:42 PM

On Aug. 18, 1963, James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0818.html#article)

On August 18, 1888, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1888. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0818.html)

1227 The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.

1587 Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.

1846 U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M.

1894 Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.

1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

1954 Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first black to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.

1963 James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.

1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.

1988 Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.

1991 Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.

1997 Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.

2005 Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland.

Kestra

08-19-2007, 10:22 AM

this is a very interesting read, and mirrors what is currently happening in this country. i copied and pasted a few paragraphs of interest below.

On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0819.html#article) Reich Bishop at Victory Fete Says Hitler's Anti-Semitism Is Fight for Christianity ring any bells?

The German people were asked to vote whether they approved the consolidation of the offices of President and Chancellor in a single Leader-Chancellor personified by Adolf Hitler. By every appeal known to skillful politicians and with every argument to the contrary suppressed, they were asked to make their approval unanimous. our dictator and thief is bullying Congress into granting him dictitorial powers, as well as taking power for himself.

The results given out by the Propaganda Ministry early this morning show that out of a total vote of 43,438,378, cast by a possible voting population of more than 45,000,000, there were 38,279,514 who answered "Yes," 4,287,808 who answered "No" and there were 871,056 defective ballots. interesting. Thus there is an affirmative vote of almost 90 per cent of the valid votes and a negative vote of nearly 10 per cent exclusive of the spoiled ballots which may or may not have been deliberately rendered defective. Florida 2000

These results therefore show that the number of Germans discontented with Chancellor Hitler's course is increasing but is not yet seriously damaging to it. He is the Fuehrer [leader] of the Reich with absolute power by the vote of almost 90 per cent of the Germans in it but the number of dissentients has doubled since the last test.

The endorsement gives Chancellor Hitler, who four years ago was not even a German citizen, interesting, dictatorial powers unequaled in any other country, and probably unequaled in history since the days of Genghis Khan. until now, that is. He has more power than Joseph Stalin in Russia, who has a party machine to reckon with; more power than Premier Mussolini of Italy who shares his prerogative with the titular ruler; more than any American President ever dreamed of.
well, that is until giggles claimed his power.

No other ruler has so widespread power nor so obedient and compliant subordinates. until now. The question that interests the outside world now is what Chancellor Hitler will do with such unprecedented authority.

In their view the vote may induce the Fuehrer to steer henceforth a more moderate course and take account of the sensibilities of general opinion. Some of the more optimistic even hope it may induce him to get rid of some of his radical advisers to whom the opposition within Germany is great. :hmm:

Throughout the day Storm Troopers stood before each polling place with banners calling on the voters to vote "Yes." "no" vote will be discarded. Otherwise voters remained unmolested. Inside the polling places uniforms and even party emblems had been forbidden, but the execution of this order was lax. In some apparently doubtful districts brown uniforms dominated the scene as a warning to would-be opponents. sound familiar?

Your leader [Hitler] has traveled 1,500,000 kilometers by airplane, railway and motor car in the cause of Germany's rebirth. You have but to walk 100 meters to your voting booth to vote "yes."

All over Germany means were taken to get the Sunday late-sleeping population out of bed early. The polls opened at 8 o'clock, but in Berlin Storm Troops, Hitler Youth Troops and Nazi labor union groups took to the streets as early as 6 o'clock to wake the populace by shouting at them to do their duty.

On August 19, 1871, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Tweed Ring. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0819.html)
In July 1871, The New York Times ran a series of news stories exposing massive corruption by members of Tammany Hall, the Democratic political machine in New York City run by William "Boss" Tweed. The Times had obtained evidence that the Tweed Ring had pilfered the public's money in the form of inflated payments to government contractors, kickbacks to government officials, extortion, and other malfeasance. The estimated sum stolen was set at $6 million, but is today thought to have been between $30 and $200 million.
sound familiar.

1812 The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.

1929 The comedy "Amos 'n' Andy" made its network radio debut on NBC.

1942 About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.

1955 Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.

1960 A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.

1974 U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.

1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City.

1994 President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.

1996 A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.

2003 A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

2004 Internet search engine Google went public.

2005 A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in damages. (The award was reduced to about $26 million by state caps on punitive damages.)

Kestra

08-20-2007, 10:13 AM

On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the ''Prague Spring'' liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0820.html#article)

On August 20, 1904, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1904. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0820.html)

1833 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.

1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.

1918 Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.

1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

1955 Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. "Kirk Unit, V’ger must have the information... Kirk unit."

1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.

1998 Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.

Kestra

08-21-2007, 12:24 PM

On Aug. 21, 1959, President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0821.html#article)

On August 21, 1880, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1880. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0821.html)

1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe, N.M., after driving out the Spanish.

1831 Nat Turner launched a short-lived, violent slave rebellion in Virginia.

1858 The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held in Ottawa, Ill.

1878 The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.

1945 President Harry S. Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to America's allies during World War II.

1987 Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB.

1991 A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.

1997 Hudson Foods Co. closed a plant in Nebraska, agreeing to destroy some 25 million pounds of hamburger after the largest meat recall in U.S. history.

1998 Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.

2006 British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.

Kestra

08-22-2007, 11:22 AM

On August 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States chief executive to ride in an automobile. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0822.html#article)

On August 22, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. and the appointment of the first Roman Catholic cardinal in America. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0822.html)

1485 England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.

1775 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.

1846 The United States annexed New Mexico.

1851 The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.

1893 Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.

1904 Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Szechwan province.

1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.

1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.

1989 Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.

1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.

2003 Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.

2005 The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.

Kestra

08-23-2007, 11:09 AM

On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html#article)

On August 23, 1884, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1884. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0823.html)

1775 Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."

1914 Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.

1972 The Republican National Convention, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., nominated Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for a second term.

1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.

2000 An estimated 51 million viewers watched the first season finale of the reality show "Survivor" on CBS. Contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.

2005 Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.

Kestra

08-24-2007, 10:12 AM

On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0824.html#article)

On August 24, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1872. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0824.html)

79 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died.

1572 The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.

1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.

1949 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.

1954 The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.

1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.

1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.

1970 A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.

1989 Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.

2004 Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.

2006 The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet." :cry2:

Mriana

08-24-2007, 05:40 PM

Also in 1968 MLK Jr was assassinated. :(

Dot

08-25-2007, 01:02 PM

A rare MEGADETH live video from 1984, filmed at the band's debut live performance in Berkeley, California with Kerry King of SLAYER guesting on guitar, had been posted online at YouTube.com

BUT..was quickly removed due to content violation..lol

but was just as quickly reposted by other tubers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mItAhxzVYNc

rock on :thrash:

Kestra

08-25-2007, 01:49 PM

what content violation? i didn't see anything. :huh:

On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. go To Article (http://go To Article)

On August 25, 1860, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the presidential election of 1860. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0825.html)

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.

1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.

1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.

1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

1943 U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

1975 The album "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen was released.

1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.

1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.

1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.

Dot

08-25-2007, 08:02 PM

think itwas prolly the word F*uck every 20 seconds

or as the net nanny sees it:

you said a bad word, tsk, tsk.you said a bad word, tsk, tsk.you said a bad word, tsk, tsk.you said a bad word, tsk, tsk.

Kestra

08-26-2007, 09:49 AM

oh, i guess i missed that... tsk tsk. :D

On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0826.html#article) i find it interesting that the womens movement of that time was also referred to as "militants".

On August 26, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about monetary policy and the presidential election of 1876. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0826.html)

1847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.

1910 Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia.

1939 Major league baseball was televised for the first time as experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

1957 The Soviet Union announced it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.

1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto.

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.

1974 Aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh died at age 72.

1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.

2003 Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.

Kestra

08-27-2007, 10:01 AM

On Aug. 27, 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0827.html#article)

On August 27, 1870, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Napoleon III and the Franco-Prussian War. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0827.html)

1770 German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.

1859 Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.

1883 The island volcano Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.

1892 Fire seriously damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.

1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.

1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

1945 American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.

1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.

1975 Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.

1979 British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion; the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.

2001 Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.

2003 A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.

Kestra

08-28-2007, 09:55 AM

In 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0828.html#article)

On August 28, 1886, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a scandal involving the Department of Public Works in New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0828_big.html (http://[URL=)] Read Cartoon

1917 Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.

1922 The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.

1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1981 John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.

1996 Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.

1996 A divorce decree ending the 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana was issued.

2002 Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse. Both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.

2005 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.

2006 Prosecutors in Colorado abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he'd killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Kestra

08-29-2007, 09:56 AM

On Aug. 29, 1991, the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0829.html#article)

On August 29, 1908, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the phonograph and the presidential election of 1908. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0829.html)

1533 The last Incan king, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.

1632 English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.

1944 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.

1957 Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill. aw, compassionate conservatism at its finest.

1965 Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.

1966 The Beatles performed their last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1996 President Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.

2000 Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.

2002 A judge in Norwalk, Conn., sentenced Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning his teenage neighbor with a golf club in 1975.

2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisana coast, overwhelming the levees protecting New Orleans and causing massive flooding. More than 1,500 people died.
and where were our 'fearless' leaders? Cheney was hunting, Weezy was attending theatre productions and buying new shoes, and giggles was eating cake with McShame, playing a guitar, :golf:. they couldn't be bothered with turning on the telly and witness what the rest of the world saw. giggles aides were afraid to tell him of all this "bad" news, because it makes him "cranky" when his vacation is interrupted.

and two years later has New Orleans been rebuilt? it's not giggles govenrment that is helping rebuild.

Today marks the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and still there are tens of thousands of families without homes. 30,000 families are scattered across the country in FEMA apartments, 13,000 are in trailers, and hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt. To share some of these people?s stories, we have put together a short film, "When the Saints Go Marching In (http://whenthesaints.org/?utm_source=foundemail)."

During the making of this video, we heard the heartbreaking stories of good people unable to return home. We have heard the story of the Aguilar family who lost their home to the storm and only received $4,000 in payments from their insurance company. We have met Mr. Washington, an 87-year-old man and former carpenter, who owned three homes prior to the storm. He is still living in a FEMA trailer today. And we?ve met Julie, who could have returned to her job and normal life, if the government had opened up the public housing units that she had lived in prior to the storm.
You can watch their stories here (http://whenthesaints.org/?utm_source=foundemail):

Kestra

08-30-2007, 09:37 AM

On Aug. 30, 1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0830.html#article)

On August 30, 1884, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1884. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0830.html)

1797 "Frankenstein" author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London.

1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.

1893 Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was born in Winn Parish, La.

1905 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.

1941 Nazi forces began a siege of Leningrad during World War II that lasted nearly two and a half years.

1945 Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.

1965 The album "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan was released.

1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.

1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space when he blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1989 A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.

1990 President George H.W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.

1993 "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered on CBS.

1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot.

2005 A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people. i don't know how they can call it looting when ppl were just trying to survive. they only took food and water.

Kestra

08-31-2007, 10:33 AM

On Aug. 31, 1997, Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0831.html#article)

On August 31, 1861, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a newspaper scandal during the Civil War. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0831.html)

1886 An earthquake rocked Charleston, S.C., killing up to 110 people.

1888 A prostitute, Mary Ann Nichols, was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.

1954 Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.

1962 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.

1980 Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.

1994 Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.

2001 A Bronx, N.Y., team's third-place finish in the Little League World Series was ruled invalid because one player was two years older than the age limit of 12.

2004 Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in Beersheba, Israel, killing 16 passengers.

2004 A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station, killing 10 people.

2005 Some 1,000 people were killed when a religious procession across a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors of a suicide bomber.

2006 Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium.

Kestra

09-04-2007, 12:27 PM

On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0904.html#article)

On September 4, 1869, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about possible United States intervention in Cuba's first war of independence. read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0904.html)

1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.

1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: Kodak.

1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.

1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.

1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.

1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.

1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam. The comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.

1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-meter relay in Munich.

1997 Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records.

2002 Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol" on the Fox TV series.

2006 "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest. :(

Dot

09-05-2007, 11:13 AM

September 5, 2007, 12:59 pm
Ohio Congressman Dies
Associated Press:

Representative Paul Gillmor, Republican from Ohio’s 5th Congressional District in the Bowling Green area, was found dead in his apartment this morning.
Mr. Gillmor, 68, was found after he failed to come to work,

Mr. Gillmor, who served as a judge advocate in the Air Force after graduating law school, won a seat in the Ohio state senate in 1966, and served there for 22 years, rising to the senate presidency. After an unsuccessful run for governor in 1986, Gillmor was elected to the U.S. House in 1988 after eking out a 27-vote victory in the primary.

wonder who the democratic Governor will choose to replace him with???

Kestra

09-05-2007, 11:41 AM

let's hope they choose a 'real' Dem and not one of those neocons in Democratic clothing.

On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0905.html#article)

On September 5, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the appointment of a new cabinet member. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0905.html)

1698 Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. tax this: :buxom:

1774 The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.

1793 The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counterrevolutionary activities.

1836 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.

1882 The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.

1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.

1914 The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.

1939 The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose," was arrested in Yokohama.

1957 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the United States.

1975 President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life in Sacramento, Calif., by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson.

1977 The United States launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin, Voyager 2. "V'ger seeks the Creator."

1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.

2005 President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice.

2006 Felipe Calderon was declared Mexico's president-elect after two months of uncertainty over a disputed election.

Dot

09-06-2007, 05:02 AM

Today the world lost one of it's greatest voices.

Tenor Luciano Pabvarotti died at age 71.
He had been suffering since 2006 with Pancreatic Cancer.

He was credited with the resurgence of interest in opera and was one of the all time biggest sellers of music which crossed over on to the pop-charts.

We will miss him greatly.

Kestra

09-06-2007, 11:59 AM

:( i really liked him, he had such a beautiful voice.

On Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0906.html#article)

On September 6, 1902, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about William Devery, the corrupt police chief of New York City. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0906.html)

1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.

1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.

1970 Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.

1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.

1992 A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.

1997 Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey. :(

2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.)

2002 Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.

2003 Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister.

2004 Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery during a four-hour procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.

2005 The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)

2006 :liar3: and thief President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials. we don't have any secret prisons.

Kestra

09-07-2007, 01:14 PM

On Sept. 7, 1940, the German air force began its blitz on London during World War II. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0907.html#article)

On September 7, 1861, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the recruitment of Union servicemen during the early months of the Civil War. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0907.html)

1533 England's Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich.

1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.

1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1927 TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device called an image dissector.

1936 Rock musician Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.

1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1969 Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois died at age 73.

1977 The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the United States to turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington.

1977 Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released after serving more than four years in prison.

1979 ESPN (the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) made its cable TV debut.

1986 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.

1990 Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist. Bergalis died the following year.

2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave in to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.

2006 Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert. yeah, sure he didn't.

Kestra

09-09-2007, 10:36 AM

On Sept. 9, 1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0909.html#article)

On September 9, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Oscar Wilde's tour of America. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0909.html)

1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."

1850 California became the 31st state of the union.

1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.

1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created by the Radio Corporation of America.

1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.

1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.

1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.

1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.

2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.

2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command. ya did a heck of a job Brownie.

Kestra

09-10-2007, 12:39 PM

On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0910.html#article)

On September 10, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the stock and gold markets during the Civil War. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0910.html)

1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813 Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

1846 Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.

1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died two days after being shot in Baton Rouge.

1939 Canada declared war on Germany during World War II.

1945 Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis.

1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.

1955 "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS.

1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace, who resisted integration.

1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.

1988 Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' Grand Slam - winning all four major tournaments in a calendar year - by taking the U.S. Open women's title.

1989 Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later. gee, to hear Reagan tell it, he was personally responsible for the fall of the Berlin wall.

1998 President Bill Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

2000 NBC's "The West Wing" won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.

2002 Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.

2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.

Kestra

09-11-2007, 11:05 AM

On Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0911.html#article)

On September 11, 1869, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a movement to oust August Belmont as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0911.html)
1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.

1814 An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.

1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.

1885 Author D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.

1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.

1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.

1954 The Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC.

1962 The Beatles recorded their first single, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London.

1971 Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.

1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.

1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.

1987 CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.

1997 The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."

1997 Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

1998 Congress released Kenneth Starr's report, which offered graphic details of President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice. :hmm: so, how many people died because of that? none.... how was the national dept effected because of it? not at all.

2002 Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at age 69.

2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.

Kestra

09-13-2007, 11:18 AM

On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0913.html#article)

On September 13, 1862, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Dakota (Indian) War of 1862. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0913.html)

1759 During the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

1788 The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1948 Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1949 The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.

1971 A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

1990 "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.

1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.

1997 Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.

1998 Former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace died at age 79.

1998 NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.

1999 An explosion devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people.

2000 Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets. Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.

2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.

2006 Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards died at age 73.

Kestra

09-15-2007, 10:56 AM

On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0915.html#article)

On September 15, 1906, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about publisher William Randolph Hearst's campaign for governor of New York. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0915.html)

1776 British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.

1789 The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.

1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador became independent frm Spain.

1857 William Howard Taft, the 27th president who later served as chief justice, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1917 Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.

1935 The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1940 The Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses on the Luftwaffe as the tide turned in the Battle of Britain during World War II.

1950 During the Korean War, United Nations forces landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul.

1997 The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.

2001 President George W. Bush identified Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and told Americans to prepare for a long, difficult war against terrorism. now, let's go bomb, invade, and occupy Iraq!

2003 The WUSA, a women's professional soccer league, shut down after three seasons.

2004 National Hockey League owners agreed to lock out the players. (The 2004-05 season was eventually canceled.)

2005 President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from storm-ravaged New Orleans, acknowledged the government failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina "watch me make this drive" :golf: watch me play this guitar! :rocker: and urged Congress to approve a massive reconstruction program. storm? what storm? no one could have predicted there was going to be a storm? :huh:

2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. also, giggles admin promptly removed all photos and anything else that tied him to Abramoff from GOP website and elsewhere. then claimed he'd "never met him." and yet: In 2001, Bush tapped the lobbyist as a member of his Presidential Transition Team, advising the administration on policy and hiring at the Interior Department. :hmm: below is a photo of them together.

Kestra

09-16-2007, 11:25 AM

On Sept. 16, 1974, President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0916.html#article)

On September 16, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the British conquest of Egypt. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0916.html)

1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1638 France's King Louis XIV was born.

1810 Mexicans began a revolt against Spanish rule.

1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers took part in a land run in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip."

1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.

1940 Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a job he held for almost 17 years - longer than anyone in history.

1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

1966 The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

1972 "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS.

1982 A massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.

1987 Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals.

1988 Tom Browning of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

2002 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that Iraq had unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors. :hmm: gee and to hear giggles admin tell it, Iraq kicked them out and wouldn't allow them in Iraq. course, even at the time many of us knew he (giggles) was :liar3:'ing

2004 Hurricane Ivan plowed into the Gulf Coast with 130 mph wind and a major storm surge; Ivan was blamed for at least 115 deaths, 43 in the United States.

2006 The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely" regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," but the statement stopped short of the apology demanded by Islamic leaders.

Kestra

09-17-2007, 11:22 AM

On Sept. 17, 1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam. With 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0917.html#article)

On September 17, 1859, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the conscription of naturalized American citizens into military service in their countries of origin. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0917.html)

1787 The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.

1907 Warren Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, was born in St. Paul, Minn.

1920 The American Professional Football Association - a precursor of the National Football League - was formed in Canton, Ohio.

1939 The Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II.

1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. secretary of defense.

1972 The comedy series "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.

1976 NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.

1980 Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.

1986 The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th chief justice of the United States.

1992 Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the Iran-Contra scandal.

1994 Heather Whitestone of Alabama was crowned Miss America, the first deaf woman to win the title.

1996 Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew died at age 77.

1997 Northern Ireland's main Protestant party joined peace talks, bringing the major players together for first time.

1999 President Bill Clinton lifted restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier.

2001 Wall Street trading resumed for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - its longest shutdown since the Depression; the Dow lost 684.81 points, its worst-ever one-day point drop.

2001 Pro sporting events resumed after a six-day hiatus following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

2003 New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso resigned amid a furor over his $139.5 million pay package.

2004 Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Sept. 1-3 school siege in Beslan and other terrorist attacks in Russia that claimed more than 430 lives.

2004 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run, joining Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755) as the only players to reach the milestone.

Kestra

09-18-2007, 01:10 PM

On Sept. 18, 1947, the National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force, went into effect. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0918.html#article)

On September 18, 1880, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Southern Democratic influence and the presidential election of 1880. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0918.html)

1759 The French surrendered Quebec to the British.

1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain.

1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.

1851 The first edition of The New York Times was published.

1905 Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden. "I vwant to be alone."

1927 The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.

1940 "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Bros.

1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.

1970 Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27.

1975 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.

1997 Media mogul Ted Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations.

1998 The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.

1999 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season twice.

2003 Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm claimed 40 lives.

2004 Pop singer Britney Spears married dancer Kevin Federline. (The couple divorced in 2007.)

Kestra

09-19-2007, 12:13 PM

On Sept. 19, 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0919.html#article)

On September 19, 1903, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a major Post Office scandal during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0919.html)

1777 American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.

1796 President George Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

1906 Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."

1934 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.

1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court.

1955 President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.

1957 The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.

1970 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS.

1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.

1994 U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

1995 The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.

2001 The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. forget about :osam:

2002 President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction. which he did comply and many of us knew Saddam had no WMD. and how is it we 'ordinary' citizens knew giggles was lying :liar3: and Congress did not? Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)

2004 Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.

2005 Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced in New York to up to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars; Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz, received the same sentence.

2005 Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people.

Kestra

09-20-2007, 11:45 AM

On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0920.html#article)

On September 20, 1902, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a leading reform mayor and potential Democratic presidential nominee. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0920.html)

1519 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.

1870 Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.

1873 Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.

1881 Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.

1947 Former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia died at age 64.

1962 James Meredith, a black man, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett.

1973 Singer-songwriter Jim Croce, 30, died in a plane crash in Louisiana.

1977 The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.

1984 A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.

1998 After playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees.

1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas.

1999 International peacekeepers landed in East Timor.

2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Bill Clinton or his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. so let's set him up on lying about having sex. that's certainly an impeachable offense.

2001 President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress regarding the terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.

2004 CBS News apologized for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report. even tho the documents espoused the truth about him being awol.

2005 Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died at age 96.

2006 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeatedly referred to President Bush as "the devil" during a speech to the United Nations. :cdevil:

Kestra

09-21-2007, 01:53 PM

On Sept. 21, 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0921.html#article)

On September 21, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Horace Greeley, Andersonville prison camp, and the presidential election of 1872. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0921.html)

1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.

1897 The New York Sun ran an editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?"

1931 Britain went off the gold standard.

1937 "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.

1948 Milton Berle debuted as permanent host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC.

1948 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.

1964 Malta gained independence from Britain.

1970 "NFL Monday Night Football" debuted on ABC.

1973 The Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be secretary of state.

1977 President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.

1982 National Football League players began a 57-day strike.

1983 In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a woman, two Jews and a cripple." Watt later apologized and resigned.

1996 John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.

1996 The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.

1998 President Bill Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast. In it, Clinton sparred with prosecutors about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, at one point answering a question by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

1998 Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.

1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.

2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler whose killings of young women terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in prison at age 67.

2003 NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.

2006 The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. torture, torture, torture, rendition, rendition, rendition! revoke Habeas Corpus, Geneva Conventions, :kanga:courts.

Kestra

09-22-2007, 01:47 PM

On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0922.html#article)

On September 22, 1860, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the American tour of Prince Edward, the future King Edward VII of Great Britain. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0922.html)

1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.

1789 Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.

1792 The French Republic was proclaimed.

1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the "long-count" fight in Chicago.

1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

1964 The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.

1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.

1975 Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.

1980 The conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.

1988 The government of Canada apologized for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians and promised compensation.

1989 Songwriter Irving Berlin died at age 101.

1995 Time Warner struck a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

1999 Actor George C. Scott died at age 71.

2001 Violinist Isaac Stern died at age 81.

2004 CBS-owned stations were fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for showing Janet Jackson's exposed right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show. (CBS has appealed.) oh dear, i had a costume malfunction! :buxom:maybe she shouUlda shown the wrong breast. :wgrin:

2005 John Roberts' nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.

Kestra

09-23-2007, 11:49 AM

On Sept. 23, 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the ``Checkers'' speech as he denied allegations of improper campaign financing. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0923.html#article)

On September 23, 1899, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Dreyfus Affair. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0923.html)

63 B.C. Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
48 Caesar Augustus
9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor

1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.

1779 American commander John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.

1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.

1846 The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

1930 Musician Ray Charles was born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Ga.

1939 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London at age 83.

1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

1973 Former Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power.

1987 Choreographer-director Bob Fosse died at age 60.

1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.

1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.

2002 A 24-count indictment charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications Corp.

Kestra

09-24-2007, 01:11 PM

On Sept. 24, 1996, the United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0924.html#article)

On September 24, 1881, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the status of Native Americans within the American legal system. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0924.html)

1755 John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the United States, was born in Germantown, Virginia.

1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.

1869 Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.

1896 Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn.

1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.

1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.

1968 "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.

1969 A trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.

1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.

1991 Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.

1991 The album "Nevermind" by Nirvana was released.

1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.

2001 President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.

2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a special session of Parliament that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them.

2005 Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans.

Kestra

09-25-2007, 12:03 PM

On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0925.html#article)

On September 25, 1880, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Samuel J. Randall, the Democratic speaker of the house, and the presidential election of 1880. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0925.html)

1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean.

1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.

1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.

1897 Author William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Miss.

1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.

2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.

2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.

2003 Author, journalist and editor George Plimpton died at age 76.

2006 The Louisiana Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a New Orleans Saints game.

Kestra

09-26-2007, 11:20 AM

On Sept. 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0926.html#article)

On September 26, 1885, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the America's Cup yacht race. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0926.html)

1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.

1888 Poet T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Mo.

1898 Composer George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York.

1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established.

1950 United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.

1957 The musical "West Side Story" opened on Broadway.

1969 The album "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released.

1980 The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.

1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.

1990 The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.

1991 Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure known as Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Ariz.

1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.

2000 Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.

2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. (She was later sentenced to three years in prison.)

2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.

2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists

2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.

2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose," died in Chicago at age 90.

Kestra

09-28-2007, 12:19 PM

On Sept. 28, 1924, two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0928.html#article)

On September 28, 1861, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about financing the Union war effort during the Civil War. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0928.html)

1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.

1542 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived in present-day San Diego.

1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War,

1787 Congress voted to send the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.

1850 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.

1939 During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.

1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.

1974 First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.

1989 Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.

1991 Jazz musician Miles Davis died at age 65.

1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.

2000 Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.

2000 Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount.

2000 Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau died at age 80.

2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws. (The charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering charges.)

2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.

Kestra

10-01-2007, 01:03 PM

On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1001.html#article)

On October 1, 1887, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a dispute between President Grover Cleveland and Governor Joseph Foraker of Ohio. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1001.html)

1800 Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.

1896 The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.

1903 The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game. (The Americans, forerunners of the Boston Red Sox, won the best-of-nine series 5-3.)

1907 New York's Plaza Hotel opened to the public.

1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825.

1924 William Rehnquist, the 16th chief justice of the United States, was born in Milwaukee, Wis.

1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.

1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

1962 Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show.

1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley. and now it's all being taken away.

1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.

1979 Pope John Paul II began his first trip to the United States.

1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.

1993 Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home during a slumber party and murdered. Her case inspired California's three-strikes law.

1994 National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.

2001 The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.

2001 A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.

2006 The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.

Kestra

10-03-2007, 10:53 AM

On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1003.html#article)

On October 3, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the controversial suggestion that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1003.html)

1226 St. Francis of Assisi died. Brother sun, Sister moon.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

1922 Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman member of the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.

1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

1941 Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."

1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, sending the Giants into the World Series.

1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC.

1967 Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie died at age 55.

1974 Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.

1981 Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.

1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1994 Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions about gifts he had received.

1995 A jury found ex-football player O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. yeah, and we all know he did it.

1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.

2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.

2002 Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the "Beltway Sniper."

2003 A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed. the tiger didn't attack him, it was actually protecting him.

2005 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (She withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism.) yeah well, experience doesn't matter, loyalty to the :king: is what matters.

Kestra

10-06-2007, 01:05 PM

On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1006.html#article)

On October 6, 1900, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Tammany Ice Trust and the presidential election of 1900. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1006.html)

1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.

1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.

1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.

1927 The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson.

1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.

1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

1976 In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.

1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.

1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.

1989 Actress Bette Davis died at age 81.

2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991. :hmm: gee, ya suppose we were lied to by this current admin and led into an illegal 'occupation'?

Kestra

10-07-2007, 09:46 AM

On Oct. 7, 1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1007.html#article)

On October 7, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the New York state elections. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1007.html)
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.

1777 The second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution.

1849 Author Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.

1868 Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.

1879 Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, Ukraine.

1949 The Republic of East Germany was formed.

1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.

1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.

1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.

1981 Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.

1982 The musical "Cats" opened on Broadway, beginning its record run of 7,485 performances.

1996 Fox News Channel made its debut.

1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later.

1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.

2000 Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.

2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer, while San Diego's Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 hits.

2001 The United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.

2002 The Washington-area sniper struck again, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy in Bowie, Md.

2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.

2004 Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated because of poor health.

2006 Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.

Kestra

10-08-2007, 10:56 AM

On Oct. 8, 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1008.html#article)

On October 8, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1864. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1008.html)

1869 Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, N.H., at age 64.

1871 The Great Chicago Fire erupted. The blaze destroyed four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.

1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.

1934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.

1944 "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" made its debut on CBS Radio.

1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

1956 Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5.

1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

1985 The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard.

2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.

2002 A federal judge approved President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a caustic 10-day labor lockout.

2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison in West Virginia to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale.

2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.

Kestra

10-09-2007, 11:35 AM

On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1009.html#article)

On October 9, 1897, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Senator Thomas Platt, longtime political boss of the New York State Republican Party. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1009.html)

1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered in New Haven.

1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.

1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.

1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1940 Rock musician and songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles was born in Liverpool, England.

1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.

1958 Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.

1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.

1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

2002 A man was gunned down moments after filling his tank at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington D.C. area.

2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.

Kestra

10-10-2007, 12:25 PM

On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1010.html#article)

On October 10, 1891, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about China's rejection of the new U.S. minister to that country. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1010.html)

1813 Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.

1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.

1886 The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.

1935 George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway.

1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.

1964 The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.

1970 Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.

1979 Wayne Gretzky played his first National Hockey League game and scored the first of his NHL-record 1,962 assists for the visiting Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks.

1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.

1985 Actor-director Orson Welles died at age 70.

2002 The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. (The Senate followed suit the next day.) :kboots: of course giggles interpretted that as a blank check to bomb the :horse: out of the middle east, hence his sights are set for Iran. Obama never signed that "blank check" Kerry has since admitted that was a mistake. Hillary refuses to comment instead, resently signed on to "Bomb Bomb Iran".

2003 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.

2004 Actor Christopher Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after a May 1995 horse riding accident, died at age 52. :(

2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.

2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.

Kestra

10-11-2007, 11:59 AM

On Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1011.html#article)

On October 11, 1873, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the response of the Grant administration to the economic panic of 1873. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1011.html)

1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution.

1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.

1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.

1958 The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere. oops.

1962 Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.

1975 The sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" debuted on NBC.

1984 Space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.

1991 Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching." yeah sure, so, we now have as a Supreme Court Justice a man who is given to sexual harrassement. who keeps whining about being given breaks by equal opportunity programs and a white pres because he's black, and not because of his "capabilities".

1998 Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.

2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq. "had they know then..." :eyeroll: i guess they couldn't be bothered to actually "read" the false documentation or perhaps they don't know how to read.

2002 A man filling up his car at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., was shot to death in the eighth slaying linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper.

2002 Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.

2006 A plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger crashed into a high-rise apartment building in New York City, killing both men.

Dot

10-12-2007, 09:54 AM

Al Gore got the Nobel Prize
He has pledged to donate all his prize money to an organisation dedicated to tackling climate change.

The Nobel peace prize committee last night gave the 2007 award jointly to Mr Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN body of about 3000 experts that has pointed to the connection between human activities and global warming. The Norwegian Nobel committee said Mr Gore was "probably the single individual who has done most" to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted to tackle climate change.

way to go..
so it's:
a Nobel
a Grammy
A Emmy

Kestra

10-13-2007, 09:23 AM

On Oct. 13, 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1013.html#article)

On October 13, 1894, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about David B. Hill's campaign for governor as a stepping-stone to the White House. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1013.html)

1775 The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

1792 The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.

1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.

1903 The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.

1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.

1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.

1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.

1974 TV host Ed Sullivan died at age 72.

1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.

1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.

2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

2005 British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.

2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.

Kestra

10-14-2007, 09:56 AM

On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1014.html#article)

On October 14, 1905, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the New York City mayoral election of 1905. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1014.html)

1066 Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.

1912 Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee.

1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1947 Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X One rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.

1964 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1968 The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.

1977 Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73.

1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.

1986 Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1990 Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died at age 72.

1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.

2002 An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.

2003 John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)

2004 A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.

Kestra

10-15-2007, 12:31 PM

On Oct. 15, 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev. go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1015.html#article)

On October 15, 1881, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the elevation of Chester Arthur to the presidency following the assassination of James Garfield. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1015.html)

1860 Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.

1945 The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed.

1946 Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

1951 The situation comedy "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS.

1964 Composer Cole Porter died at age 73.

1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.

1969 Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.

1976 In the first debate between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.

1989 Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL career scoring record of 1,850 points.

1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1990 South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.

1991 The Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48. yes the poor sexual harrasser who claims *by his own words* only got to where he is today because of help from the "white guys" and not for his own merits. :cry2: hence his reason for being against and wanting to abolish the 'equal opportunity' program so that other minorities won't have to "suffer" like him 'not knowing' if they got where they are not on merit but because some white dude helped them get there. :eyeroll:

1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.

1999 The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal.

2003 China launched its first manned space mission, becoming the third country to send a person into orbit.

2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.

Kestra

10-16-2007, 10:25 AM

On Oct. 16, 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1016.html#article)

On October 16, 1869, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about "Black Friday" and the attempt to corner the gold market. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1016.html)

1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution.

1859 Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led 21 men in a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. (The raid was put down and Brown was executed for treason.)

1888 Playwright Eugene O'Neill was born in New York City.

1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic, in New York City.

1927 Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass was born.

1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.

1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.

1970 Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.

1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected pope by the Roman Catholic Church's College of Cardinals; he took the name John Paul II.

1984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1987 Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.

1991 A man crashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.

1995 A vast throng of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

1997 Author James Michener died at age 90.

1998 David Trimble and John Hume were named recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord.

1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.

2000 Missouri Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis.

2002 The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.

2002 President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq. one that he lied, used falsified intel in order to get a resolution. and one that Congress did think he'd use to immediately bomb, invade and occupy a "sovereign" nation that had not threatened nor attacked U.S.

2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist and press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, died at age 79.

Dot

10-16-2007, 12:02 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=487764&in_page_id=1811

:gteeth:

Kestra

10-17-2007, 11:26 AM

cool!

On Oct. 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1017.html#article)

On October 17, 1857, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a British and Indian military conflict in India. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1017.html)

1777 British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.

1915 Playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York City.

1919 The Radio Corporation of America was created.

1933 Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1945 Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.

1957 French author Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

1973 Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.

1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

1979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.

1987 First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

1989 An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.

1997 The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.

2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.

2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.

Kestra

10-18-2007, 10:36 AM

On Oct. 18, 1968, the United States Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1018.html#article)

On October 18, 1879, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the New York state elections of 1879. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1018.html)

1685 King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.

1767 The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.

1867 The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.

1892 The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.

1898 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.

1931 Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at age 84 in West Orange, N.J.

1944 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.

1950 Connie Mack announced he was retiring after 50 seasons as manager of baseball's Philadelphia Athletics.

1962 Dr. James D. Watson of the United States, and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.

1969 The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they cause cancer in laboratory rats.

1977 Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees became the second player to hit three home runs in a World Series game as he led New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6.

1977 West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.

1982 Former first lady Bess Truman died in Independence, Mo., at age 97.

1989 Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.

2001 Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2001 It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.

2006 The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.

Kestra

10-19-2007, 12:59 PM

On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value - its second biggest percentage drop. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1019.html#article)

On October 19, 1901, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the New York City mayoral election of 1901. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1019.html)

1765 The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.

1781 British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.

1812 French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began a retreat from Moscow.

1944 The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1950 United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1951 President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.

1960 The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba.

1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."

2001 Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

2001 It was announced that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.

2002 A 37-year-old man was seriously wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Va., in the latest attack by the Washington-area sniper.

2003 Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.

2004 Insurgents in Iraq abducted Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, from her car in Baghdad. (Hassan was later slain by her captors.)

2005 A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad. let me see, which other world leader do we know who is guilty of such 'atrocities' and yet remains free? :hmm:

2006 Gunmen ambushed a car carrying Afghan civilians working for a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, killing eight of them execution-style.

2006 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, ending at 12,011.73.

Kestra

10-20-2007, 12:14 PM

On Oct. 20, 1973, in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1020.html#article)

On October 20, 1888, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Andrew Carnegie and business consolidation. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1020.html)

1803 The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

1931 Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Okla.

1944 Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return."

1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry.

1964 Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, died at age 90 in New York City.

1967 Seven of 18 defendants were convicted in Mississippi of violating the civil rights of three young men who were murdered while trying to help blacks register to vote in 1964.

1968 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

1977 Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss.

1992 In the first World Series game to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2.

2000 Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

2004 A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan "Chip" Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. (Frederick was sentenced to eight years in prison.)

2005 A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial was abducted from his office and found murdered hours later.

Kestra

10-21-2007, 10:29 AM

On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1021.html#article)

On October 21, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Charles Francis Adams and the Massachusetts gubernatorial election of 1876. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1021.html)

1797 The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.

1805 A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed.

1917 American soldiers first saw action in World War I on the front lines in France.

1966 More than 140 people, mostly children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses in south Wales.

1967 Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.

1971 President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1975 Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hit a ball that struck the left field foul pole in Boston's Fenway Park for a home run, giving the Red Sox a 7-6 victory in 12 innings over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the World Series.

1988 A federal grand jury in New York indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, on charges of fraud and racketeering.

2001 Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhaled anthrax.

2002 A car packed with explosives blew up next to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour; 14 people were killed in addition to two suicide attackers.

2003 Invoking a hastily-passed law, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a feeding tube reinserted into Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle. and, giggles interrupted his vacation at his Crawford ranch to sneak away in the middle of the night. to fly back to DC to pass the same law. and yet, his own aides were afraid to contact him about Katrina disaster as the rest of the world watched in horror the events that unfolded. why? because, he was 'on vacation' and gets very angry about receiving bad news, he finally did get around to veiwing Katrina's devistation from a "gods eye view" of Airforce One. Condi was busy going to theatre shows and buying new shoes. Darth was hunting. and today, New Orleans is still in a shambles.

2003 The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier jutting into the West Bank.

Kestra

10-27-2007, 01:41 PM

On Oct. 27, 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opened in New York City. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1027.html#article)

On October 27, 1877, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about General George B. McClellan's candidacy for governor of New Jersey. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1027.html)

1787 The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.

1858 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was born in New York City.

1880 Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.

1914 Author-poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales.

1938 Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: nylon.

1947 "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.

1967 Expo '67 closed in Montreal.

1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1997 The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

2002 Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith broke the NFL career rushing yardage record of 16,726 held by Walter Payton. (Smith finished his career with 18,355 yards rushing.)

2002 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff, becoming the country's first elected leftist leader.

2004 The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4.

2005 White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow conservatives. i guess giggles over estimated the level of :kboots: his minions were willing to stoop to.

Kestra

10-29-2007, 12:23 PM

On Oct. 29, 1929, stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1029.html#article)

On October 29, 1904, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper and the presidential election of 1904. Read Cartoon (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1029.html)

1682 The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.

1891 Broadway star Fanny Brice was born Fanny Borach in New York City.

1901 President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.

1911 American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer died at age 64.

1923 The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.

1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America's first peacetime military draft.

1947 Former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston died at age 83.

1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.

1956 "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.

1964 Thieves made off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

1966 The National Organization for Women was founded.

1967 The musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway.

1971 Rock musician Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers Band) died in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Ga., at age 24.

1987 Jazz great Woody Herman died at age 74.

1998 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the moon, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.

2002 A memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minneapolis turned into a virtual political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.

2004 Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks. and still today, there are those who believe Saddam was connected.

2004 European Union leaders signed the EU's first constitution.

2006 Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won re-election in a landslide.

Kestra

10-30-2007, 01:12 PM

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. Go To Article (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1030.html#article)

On October 30, 1875, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about former senator Reuben Fenton and the New York Republican Party. Read Cartoon ( http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1030.html)

1735 John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.

1885 Poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.

1953 George C. Marshall, who, as secretary of state following World War II, engineered a massive economic aid program for Europe, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1961 The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb.

1975 The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.

1989 Mitsubishi Estate Co., a major Japanese real estate concern, announced it was buying 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York.

1997 A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.

1998 In Nicaragua, a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch killed at least 2,000 people.

2000 Comedian, TV host, author and composer Steve Allen died at age 78.

2002 Minnesota Democrats tapped the former vice president Walter Mondale to run for the seat of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone less than a week before the election. (Mondale lost to Republican Norm Coleman.)

2002 Rapper Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was killed in a shooting in New York at age 37.

2005 The body of Rosa Parks arrived at the U.S. Capitol, where the civil rights pioneer became the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda.