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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 17, 2011 23:44:34 GMT -5
Once again it has been brought home to me how fleeting MSN has become. Right now I cannot post on Today in History on Lifestyles. So goodby MSN, hello proboards.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 17, 2011 23:50:35 GMT -5
17 JuL
:)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me.
Today is 198th day of 2011 with 167 days left in the year
Today in History:
1212—the Moors were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
1453—France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.
1762—Peter III of Russia was murdered and his wife, Catherine II the Great, took the throne.
1776—the Continental Congress learns that Gen. Washington refused to accept a dispatch from British Gen. William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard Viscount Howe, because it failed to use the title ‘General.’ Congress proclaimed that the commander –in-chief was correct and directed all American commanders to receive only letters addressed “in the characters they respectively sustain.”
1785—France limited the importation of goods from Britain.
1791—National Guard troops opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in Paris.
1799—Ottoman forces, supported by the British, captured Aboukir, Egypt from the French.
1801—the US fleet arrived in Tripoli.
1815—Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.
1821—Spain ceded Florida to the US and Andrew Jackson became its governor.
1841—the British humor magazine Punch was first published.
1862—national cemeteries were authorized by the US government — Pres. Lincoln approved the Confiscation Act. that declared that any slaves whose owners were in rebellion would be freed when they came into contact with the Union army.
1863—in New York City, order was restored by Union troops returning from Gettysburg. (The riots had began on July 11.)
1864—Confederate Pres. Davis replaced Gen. Joseph Johnson with John Bell Hood as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
1866—authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. The three-year project cost $512,709.
1867—Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Mass. It was the first dental school in the US
1870—a drunken brawl turned deadly when “Wild Bill” Kickok was attacked by five drunk soldiers and shot two of them, mortally wounding one, in a clear case self-defense.
1898—Spanish-American War: Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to US forces under Gen. William R. Shafter.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 17, 2011 23:54:14 GMT -5
1901—Dr. Willis Carrier (Carrier Corp.) installed a commercial air conditioning system at a Brooklyn, NY printing plant. The system was the first to provide man-made control over temperature, humidity, ventilation and air quality to help maintain quality at the printing plant..
1917—with the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.
1917—fighting broke out on the streets of St Petersburg after the provisional government failed to satisfy the anger and frustration within and without the army due to participation in the first World War.
1936—the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic
1938—Douglas Corrigan, the last of the early glory-seeking fliers took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, on a flight that would put him in aviation history. Supposedly he took off to fly back home to California but wound up landing in Dublin, Ireland. He claimed he used the wrong compass arrow for going in the wrong direction, and was forever after called “Wrong-way Corrigan.”
1941—NY Yankees centerfielder, Joe DiMaggio, failed to get a hit against the Cleveland Indians pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby, Jr., bringing his historic 56-game hitting streak to an end.
1941—Brig. Gen. Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon.
1944—320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California due to poor procedures and lack of training.
1944—Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was wounded when an Allied fighter strafes his staff car in France.
1945—Pres. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II, marred by growing suspicion and tension between the US and USSR.
1946—Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River.
1948—Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president.
1950—the TV show The Colgate Comedy Hour debuted featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
1954—the Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players.
1954—the first Newport Jazz Festival was held on the grass tennis courtsof the Newport Casino, in Newport, R.I.
1955—Disneyland opened the gates to “The Happiest Place on Earth” in Anaheim, Calif.
1956—the movie-musical High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, opened in theaters around the US and was Grace Kelly’s last feature film before her marriage to Prince Rainiers of Monaco.
1960—Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
1961—John Chancellor became the on-air host of the Today show on NBC-TV, replacing Dave Garroway, who had resigned after 10 years of early morning duty on the popular program.
1961—[Tyrus Raymond] Ty Cobb, one of the first MLB Hall of Famers, died at age 74 of cancer at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Ga.
1966—Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes.
1967—one of the oddest musical pairings in history came to an end when Jimi Hendrix dropped out as the opening act for teenybopper sensations The Monkees, who were fans of Hendrix and wanted to give him exposure in the US.
1967—John William “Trane” Coltrane, jazz saxophonist & composer, died at age 40 from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital on Long Island, NY. He was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his “masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality in the history of jazz.”
1968—the Beatles’ feature-length cartoon, Yellow Submarine, premiered at the London Pavilion.
1968—a coup in Iraq returned the Baath Party to power, five years after it was ousted
1974—the Moody Blues open the first quadraphonic studio in London.
1975—Apollo18 spaceship rendezvoused and docked with Soyuz 19 spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower hookup in space with the two commanders, Thomas Safford and Aleksei Leonov shaking hands and exchanging gifts.
1979—Nicaraguan Pres. Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami, Fla. in exile.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 17, 2011 23:55:48 GMT -5
1981—a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, landing one atop the other during a tea dance, killing 114 people. (Five years later two design engineers were convicted for their negligence.)
1981—Israeli jets bombed a densely populated area of Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Palestinian guerrilla headquarters.
1984—Hector Camacho, previously undefeated, lost the WBC junior-lightweight boxing crown because he could no longer make the 130-pound fighting limit. (He moved into the 135-pound class for lightweight competition.)
1986—the largest bankruptcy filing in US history took place when LTV Corp. asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion.
1987—Lt Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying before Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings.
1995—the NASDDAQ composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.
1996—TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY, shortly after leaving JFK International Airport with all 230 people aboard killed.
1997—after 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
1998—biologists reported that they had deciphered the genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.
1998—an entire village was swept away in Papua New Guinea by a 23-foot wave that was triggered by an undersea earthquake. (Eight days later the government reported that 1,500 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and thousands were homeless.)
1998—Nicholas II, the last of Romanov Tsars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
2000—Bashar Assad succeeded his father, Hafez Assad, to become Syria's 16th head of state.
2001—Katharine Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co., died at age 84 of a traumatic brain injury three days after suffering a head injury in Sun Valley, Idaho.
2002—a new Iraqi embassy opened in Berlin after moving from Bonn.
2005—in Baghdad, Iraq, the first criminal case was filed against Saddam Hussein, stemming from the 1982 massacre of dozens of Shiite villagers in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt against Hussein. Three others were included in the charges.
2006—the shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned home safely.
2006—[Frank Morrison] Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (Mike Hammer series), died at age 88 of pancreatic cancer at home in Murrells Inlet, S.C.
2006—a powerful earthquake sent a tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's island of Java, killing at least 600 people.
2006—in Iraq, gunmen used grenades and automatic weapons to kill at least 50 shoppers in a market south of Baghdad.
2009—Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., former CBS News anchor, died at age 92 probably of cerebrovascular disease at home in New York City.
2010—federal authorities in Puerto Rico arrested alleged drug kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean.
2010—1000s of gays and lesbians from around Europe marched through Warsaw to demand equal rights and more tolerance in the heavily Roman Catholic nation
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 18, 2011 23:23:03 GMT -5
18 Jul. :)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me. Today is 199th day of 2011 with 166 days left in the year  Today in History: 64—the Great Fire of Rome began. 1536—the English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England. 1610—Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, highly influential Italian baroque artist (“Martyrdom of St Matthew”, “Calling of St Matthew”), died at age 38 of a fever in Porto Ercole on his way to Rome. 1743—the New York Weekly Journal published the first half-page newspaper ad. 1789—Robespierre, deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution. 1792—John Paul Jones, US naval hero, died at age 45 of interstitial nephritis in Paris 1812—the US declared war against Britain. 1812—Great signed the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden. 1815—British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium. 1830—Uruguay adopted a liberal constitution. 1872—the Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots. 1873—suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. 1901—Dr. Willis Carrier (Carrier Corp.) installed a commercial air conditioning system at a Brooklyn, NY printing plant. The system was the first to provide man-made control over temperature, humidity, ventilation and air quality to help maintain quality at the printing plant.. 1917—with the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor. 1917—fighting broke out on the streets of St Petersburg after the provisional government failed to satisfy the anger and frustration within and without the army due to participation in the first World War. 1936—the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic 1938—Douglas Corrigan, the last of the early glory-seeking fliers took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, on a flight that would put him in aviation history. Supposedly he took off to fly back home to California but wound up landing in Dublin, Ireland. He claimed he used the wrong compass arrow for going in the wrong direction, and was forever after called “Wrong-way Corrigan.” 1941—NY Yankees centerfielder, Joe DiMaggio, failed to get a hit against the Cleveland Indians pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby, Jr., bringing his historic 56-game hitting streak to an end. 1941—Brig. Gen. Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon. 1944—320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California due to poor procedures and lack of training. 1944—Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was wounded when an Allied fighter strafes his staff car in France. 1945—Pres. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II, marred by growing suspicion and tension between the US and USSR. 1946—Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River. 1948—Southern Democrats opposed to the party's position on civil rights met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president. 1950—the TV show The Colgate Comedy Hour debuted featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. 1954—the Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players. 1954—the first Newport Jazz Festival was held on the grass tennis courtsof the Newport Casino, in Newport, R.I. 1955—Disneyland opened the gates to “The Happiest Place on Earth” in Anaheim, Calif. 1956—the movie-musical High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, opened in theaters around the US and was Grace Kelly’s last feature film before her marriage to Prince Rainiers of Monaco.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 18, 2011 23:24:48 GMT -5
1960—Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
1961—John Chancellor became the on-air host of the Today show on NBC-TV, replacing Dave Garroway, who had resigned after 10 years of early morning duty on the popular program.
1961—[Tyrus Raymond] Ty Cobb, one of the first MLB Hall of Famers, died at age 74 of cancer at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Ga.
1966—Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes.
1967—one of the oddest musical pairings in history came to an end when Jimi Hendrix dropped out as the opening act for teenybopper sensations The Monkees, who were fans of Hendrix and wanted to give him exposure in the US.
1967—John William “Trane” Coltrane, jazz saxophonist & composer, died at age 40 from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital on Long Island, NY. He was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his “masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality in the history of jazz.”
1968—the Beatles’ feature-length cartoon, Yellow Submarine, premiered at the London Pavilion.
1968—a coup in Iraq returned the Baath Party to power, five years after it was ousted
1974—the Moody Blues open the first quadraphonic studio in London.
1975—Apollo18 spaceship rendezvoused and docked with Soyuz 19 spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower hookup in space with the two commanders, Thomas Safford and Aleksei Leonov shaking hands and exchanging gifts.
1979—Nicaraguan Pres. Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami, Fla. in exile.
1981—a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, landing one atop the other during a tea dance, killing 114 people. (Five years later two design engineers were convicted for their negligence.)
1981—Israeli jets bombed a densely populated area of Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Palestinian guerrilla headquarters.
1984—Hector Camacho, previously undefeated, lost the WBC junior-lightweight boxing crown because he could no longer make the 130-pound fighting limit. (He moved into the 135-pound class for lightweight competition.)
1986—the largest bankruptcy filing in US history took place when LTV Corp. asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion.
1987—Lt Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying before Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings.
1995—the NASDDAQ composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.
1996—TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY, shortly after leaving JFK International Airport with all 230 people aboard killed.
1997—after 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
1998—biologists reported that they had deciphered the genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.
1998—an entire village was swept away in Papua New Guinea by a 23-foot wave that was triggered by an undersea earthquake. (Eight days later the government reported that 1,500 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and thousands were homeless.)
1998—Nicholas II, the last of Romanov Tsars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
2000—Bashar Assad succeeded his father, Hafez Assad, to become Syria's 16th head of state.
2001—Katharine Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co., died at age 84 of a traumatic brain injury three days after suffering a head injury in Sun Valley, Idaho.
2002—a new Iraqi embassy opened in Berlin after moving from Bonn.
2005—in Baghdad, Iraq, the first criminal case was filed against Saddam Hussein, stemming from the 1982 massacre of dozens of Shiite villagers in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt against Hussein. Three others were included in the charges.
2006—the shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned home safely.
2006—[Frank Morrison] Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (Mike Hammer series), died at age 88 of pancreatic cancer at home in Murrells Inlet, S.C.
2006—a powerful earthquake sent a tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's island of Java, killing at least 600 people.
2006—in Iraq, gunmen used grenades and automatic weapons to kill at least 50 shoppers in a market south of Baghdad.
2009—Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., former CBS News anchor, died at age 92 probably of cerebrovascular disease at home in New York City.
2010—federal authorities in Puerto Rico arrested alleged drug kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean.
2010—1000s of gays and lesbians from around Europe marched through Warsaw to demand equal rights and more tolerance in the heavily Roman Catholic nation
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 18, 2011 23:34:41 GMT -5
Today’s Birthdays:
1918—Nelson Mandela, former South African President is 93.
1921—John Glenn, former US Senator (D-Ohio), is 90.
1926—Tom Wicker, journalist
1929—Dick Button, skating champion and commentator is 82.
1937—Jay Rockefeller, US Senator (D-W.Va.) age 74
1938—Paul Verhoeven, movie director is 73.
1939—Brian Auger, musician is 72.
1939—Dion DiMucci, singer is 72.
1939—Lou Brock, MLB Hall of Fame (St Louis Cardinals) age 72
1940—James Brolin, actor is 71.
1940—Joe Torre, MLB baseball executive is 71.
1941—Martha Reeves, singer is 70.
1941—Lonnie Mack, blues guitarist is 70.
1942—Paul McCartney, rock singer & guitarist (the Beatles, Wings) age 69
1942—Roger Ebert, movie critic
1949—Wally Bryson, pop-rock musician (The Raspberries) is 62.
1949—Craig Fuller, country-rock singer (Pure Prairie League) is 62
1950—Mike Johanns, UN Senator (R-Neb) age 61
1951—Margo Martindale, actress is 60.
1952—Isabella Rosselini, Italian actress 59
1954—Ricky Skaggs, singer is 57.
1958—Nigel Twist, rock musician (The Alarm) is 53.
1960—Anne-Marie Johnson, actress is 51.
1961—Elizabeth McGovern, actress is 50.
1961—Alison Moyet, rock singer age 50
1962—John Hermann, rock musician (Widespread Panic) is 49.
1969—Jack Irons, rock musician is 49.
1963—Bruce Smith, NFL Hall of Fame is 48
1967—Vin Diesel, actor is 44.
1971—Penny Hardaway, retired NBA All-Star is 40.
1972—Eddie Matos, actor is 39.
1975—Torii Hunter, MLB All-Star outfielder is 36.
1975—M.I.A., dance music singer-songwriter is 36.
1975—Daron Malakian, rock musician (System of a Down; Scars on Broadway) is 36.
1976—Alana de la Garza, actress (TV: Law and Order) is 35
1978—rock musician Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) is 33.
1979—movie director Jared Hess is 32.
1979—Jason Weaver, actor is 32.
1980—Kristen Bell, actress is 31.
1982—Ryan Cabrera, rock singer is 29.
1983—Aaron Gillespie, Christian-rock musician (Underoath) is 28.
1985—Chace Crawford, actor is 26.
1989—Joe Dean Jr., bluegrass musician (Dailey & Vincent) is 22
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 19, 2011 15:26:01 GMT -5
OUR MISS BROOKS DAY Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on CBS radio this day in 1948. Arden played the role of Connie Brooks. The program stayed on radio until 1957, running simultaneously on TV from 1952 to 1956. Miss Brooks taught English at Madison High School. Her pal, the bashful, biology teacher Philip Boynton, was played by Robert Rockwell. The crusty, blustery principal of Madison High, Osgood Conklin, was none other than Gale Gordon. Supporting Eve Arden was Jane Morgan as Miss Brooks’ landlady, Mrs. Davis. The main problem child in the classroom, the somewhat dimwitted Walter Denton, was Richard Crenna. Eve Arden was so popular as Miss Brooks that she was frequently asked to speak to educational groups and at PTA meetings. She was even offered teaching positions at real high schools. Ah, the power of radio and television!
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 19, 2011 18:55:40 GMT -5
19 JuL
:)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me.
Today is 200th day of 2011 with 165 days left in the year
Today in History:
1525—the Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
1545—Henry VIII of England watched his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize as it leaves to battle the French.
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.
1799—the Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1848—the first Women's Rights Convention convened in Seneca Falls, NY, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Bloomers were introduced at the convention.
1863—Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's raiders were defeated at Buffington Island, Ohio.
1870—the Franco-Prussian war, which led to the unification of the German states, began.
1909—the first unassisted triple play in major-league baseball was made by Cleveland Indians shortstop Neal Ball in a game against Boston.
1941—British Prime Minister Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign in Europe.
1942—the “Seventh Symphony”, by Shostakovich, was performed for the first time in the US by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
1942—German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the US Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.
1943—more than 150 B-17s and 112 B-24 bombers raided Rome for the first time.
1946—Marilyn Monroe had her first screen test and passed with flying colors and signed to a contract with 20th Century Fox Studios. The first of her 29 films was Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!
1961—TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented By Love Possessed, starring Lana Turner, to its first-class passengers.
1969—Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins on board, went into orbit around the moon.
1974—the House Judiciary Committee recommended that Pres. Nixon should stand trial in the US Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1975—the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
1979—the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista (FSLN) guerrillas, two days after Pres. Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 19, 2011 18:58:26 GMT -5
1980—David Bowie made his theatrical debut as the title role in The Elephant Man.
1980—the Summer Olympics began in Moscow with dozens of nations boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1982—the US Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
1984—Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco, the first woman so chosen by a major party.
1989—a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.
1990—Pres. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, Calif.
1990—baseball’s all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
1991—former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler filed a lawsuit against the band. He claimed the other members had forced him to use heroin, then made him quit the band when he entered a rehabilitation program.
1995—Elvis Presley's former doctor Dr. George Nichopoulous, lost his medical license for being "too liberal" when prescribing addictive drugs.
1996—the Centennial Olympics opened in Atlanta, Ga., the biggest Olympics staged in the 100-year history of the Games, 197 nations marched in the opening ceremonies.
1997—Daniel Komen of Kenya broke the 8-minute barrier for the 2-mile run while setting a new world record of 7:58.61 at the Hechtel Night of Athletics in Hechtel, Belgium. Komen actually ran two sub-4-minute-miles in this race, running his first mile in 3:59.2, then turned in a second mile of 3:59.4.
2001—Japanese prosecutors charged a US airman with rape in an alleged attack on a woman in Okinawa. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later convicted and sentenced to nearly three years in prison.)
2001—Gunther Gebel-Williams, circus animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, died at age 66 of cancer in Venice, Fla.
2005—Pres. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
2006—Pres. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that could have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.
2006—Jack Warden, character actor (From Here to Eternity, 12 Angry Men, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, All the President’s Men, Used Cars, The Verdict; TVs: Mr. Peepers, Crazy Like a Fox, Brian’s Song [1971 Emmy]), died at age 85 of heart and kidney failure at a hospital in New York.
2010—the Agriculture Department pressured Shirley Sherrod, an administrator in Georgia, to resign after a conservative website posted edited video it claimed showed her making racist remarks. (After reviewing the entire video, the White House ended up apologizing to Sherrod.)
2010—David (Ronald de Mey) Warren, Australian scientist who'd invented the "black box" flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, died at age 85 of unreported cause at a nursing home in Melbourne
2010—a train slammed into another at a station north of Calcutta, India, killing 63 people.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 20, 2011 0:50:23 GMT -5
Today’s Birthdays:
1922—George McGovern, former US Senator (D-S.D., 1963-81) & 1972 Democratic presidential candidate is 89
1926—Helen Gallagher, actress (Neptune’s Rocking Horse; TV: All My Children, Ryan’s Hope, One Life to Live)
1926—Sue Thompson [aka Eva McKee], country singer (“Norman”, “Sad Movies [Make Me Cry]”)
1935—Philip Agee, CIA agent & author (Inside the Company: CIA Diary)
1937—George Hamilton IV, country singer (“A Rose and a Baby Ruth”, “Why Don’t They Understand”, “Abilene”, “She’s a Little Bit Country”).
1940—Vikki Carr [aka Florencia Bisenta deCasilla Martinez Cardona], singer (“It Must be Him”, “With Pen in Hand”, “The Lesson”)
1944—Commander Cody [aka George Frayne], country singer & musician (& His Lost Planet Airmen: “Hot Rod Lincoln”)
1945—George Dzundza, actor (The Deer Hunter, Basic Instinct, Dangerous Minds; TV: Skokie, Grey’s Anatomy; stage: The Ritz)
1946—Ilie Nastase, International Tennis Hall of Fame player (1973 French Open, 1972 US Open)
1946—Alan Gorrie, Scottish rock singer, bassist, guitarist & keyboardist (Average White Band, Forever More)
1947—Brian (Harold) May, English guitarist, singer-songwriter (Queen) & astrophysicist (Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University)
1947—Bernie Leadon [aka Bernard Mathew Leadon, III], rock guitarist (The Eagles, Dillard & Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers), multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) as session musician & songwriter
1948—Beverly Archer, actress (Project ALF; TVs: Mama’s Family, Major Dad) & scriptwriter (Mama’s Family, Alf)
1951—Abel Ferrara, movie director (The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral) & screenwriter
1956—Peter Thomas Barton, actor (Hell Night, Friday the 13: The Final Chapter; TV: Shirley, The Powers of Matthew Star, Burke’s Law, Sunset Beach, The Young and the Restless)
1956—Danny Chauncey, Southern rock guitarist (.38 Special, Billy Satellite) & songwriter (“I Wanna Go Back”)
1960—Kevin Haskins, English rock drummer, pianist, guitarist (Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets;)
1960—Atom Egoyan, Armenian-Canadian independent filmmaker (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Chole)
1961—Campbell Scott, actor (Longtime Companion, Dying Young, Roger Dodger; TV: Royal Pains, Six Degrees), voice actor (narrator for No End in Sight), director (Big Night) & producer
1962—Anthony Charles Edwards, actor (The Client, Pet Sematary 2, Fast Times at Ridgmont High, Top Gun, Zodiac, Revenge of the Nerds; TV: ER, Northern Exposure) & producer (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, N.Y.H.C., Die, Mommie, Die, TV: My Louisiana Sky)
1963—Kelly Shiver, country singer (Thrasher Shiver)
1965—Clea Lewis, actress (Flying Blind, The Rich Man’s Wife; TV: Ellen)
1971—Urs Toni Buhler, Swiss classically-trained tenor (operatic pop musical quartet, Il Divo)
1971—Andrew Kavovit, actor (The Great Mom Swap, The Battle at Shadow Ridge; TV: As the World Turns)
1974—Jason McGerr, rock drummer (Death Cab for Cutie, Eureka Farm), record studio owner (Two Sticks Audio) & instructor (Seattle Drum School)
1982—Jared Tristan Padalecki, actor (New York Minute, House of Wax; TVs: Gilmore Girls, Supernatural)
1990—Steven Anthony Lawrence, actor (Cheaper by the Dozen, Kicking & Screaming, Rebound; Disney: Even Stevens, That’s So Raven)
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 20, 2011 3:09:12 GMT -5
Yesteryear’s Birthdays:
1814—Samuel Colt, 2006 National Hall of Fame firearms manufacturer (Colt’s Manufacturing Co.) & inventor of the first practical revolver, died 1862 at age 47 in Hartford, Conn.
1817—Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Civil War nurse & hospital administrator for Union soldiers & attorney who helped Union veterans with legal issues, died 1901 at age 84 peacefully after a minor stroke in Bunker Hill, Kan.
1834—Edgar Degas [aka Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas], the French Impressionist painter {“Dancers at the Barre”, “The Dance Class”, “A Cotton Office in New Orleans”, “Steeplechase—The Fallen Jockey”}, printmaker, draughtsman & sculptor (“Little Dancer of Fourteen Years”), died 1917 at age 83 nearly blind in Paris
1846—Edward Charles Pickering, physicist (Elements of Physical Manipulations, 2 vols.), astronomer (discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars), director of Harvard College Observatory & co-founder of the Appalachian Mountain Club, died 1919 at age 72 in Cambridge, Mass.
1860—Lizzie Andrew Borden, alleged murderer of her father and step-mother, died 1927 at age 66 of pneumonia in Fall River, Mass.
1865—Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota with brother, died 1939 at age 73 of pneumonia in Chicago, Ill. His two sons worked at the clinic and his grandson served a residency there.
1875—Alice Dunbar Nelson, African American writer (Violets and Other Tales, Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar Nelson), poet (“Snow in October”, “Sonnet”, “I Sit and I Sew”), journalist (Pittsburgh Courier, Washington Eagle) & political activist (blacks and women’s rights), died 1935 at age 60 from a heart ailment in Philadelphia, Pa.
1893—Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian and Soviet poet (A Cloud in Trousers, “The Backbone Flute”, “War and the World”, “Man”) & playwright (Mystery-Bouffe), committed suicide 1930 at age 36 by shooting himself in Moscow.
1896—[Archibald Joseph] A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (Hatter’s Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Green Years) & physician, died 1981 at age 84 in Montreux, Switzerland
1898—Herbert Marcuse, German-Jesigh political philosopher (Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man, The Aesthetic Dimension) & sociologist, called the “Father of the New Left”, died 1979 at age 81 of complications frm a stroke in Starnberg, West Germany
1905—Edgar Snow, journalist & author (Red Star Over China), died 1972 at age 66 of pancreatic cancer in Geneva, Switzerland
1913—Charlie Teagarden, jazz trumpeter (Ben Pollack’s Orchestra, Red Nichols, Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Pete Fountain) & younger brother of Jack Teagarden, died 1984 at age 71 in Las Vegas, Nev.
1921—Rosalyn Yalow, 1977 co-Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher for the medical applications of radioactive isotopes, developed radioimmunoassay(RIA) technique, died 2011 at age 89from undisclosed cause in The Bronx, NY
1924—Pat Hingle, actor (Batman, The Grifters, Splendor in the Grass, On the Waterfront, Norma Rae, Of Mice and Men), died 2009 at age 84 of cancer at home in Carolina Beach, N.C.
1938—Richard Jordan, actor (Dune, Gettysburg, Les Miserables, Raise the Titanic, Captains and the Kings, The Bunker, The Hunt for Red October, Dune, Logan’s Run, Rooster Cogburn) & longtime member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, died 1993 at age 55 of a brain tumor in Los Angeles
1940—Dennis Cole, actor (The Barbary Coast; TVs: Felony Squad, Bracken’s World, Bearcats!, The Young and the Restless), died 2009 at age 69 of renal in a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
1941—Natalya Igorevna Bessmertnova, Soviet prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet & a People’s Artist of the USSR, died 2008 at age 66 of cancer in Moscow
1948—Keith Richard Godchaux, rock musician (Grateful Dead, The Heart of Gold Band) , died 1980 at age 32 in an automobile accident in Marin County, Calif.
1952—Allen Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), died 1990 at age 37 of respiratory failure after a car crash that killed his girlfriend and left him paralyzed.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 20, 2011 21:37:32 GMT -5
GIANT LEAP DAY With “...one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” astronaut, Neil Armstrong, pilot of the lunar spacecraft, the Eagle, made the first footsteps on the surface of the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT on this day in 1969. Which foot did Armstrong use to step on the grainy, grayish, lunar soil? His left. So incredible were the TV images of Armstrong and (15 minutes) later, Buzz Aldrin, exploring the lunar surface, people around the world stopped and collectively held their breath. The words “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed...” gave instant impact to the drama of watching human beings reach something so far away so successfully. And all were able to breathe once again. The American flag that was deployed along with other moon-landing memorabilia, some 106 items in all, still sits on the moon as abandoned space junk. While Armstrong and Aldrin cavorted on the moon, astronaut Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 command ship, Columbia, above the moon’s surface. The world again stopped -- in anticipation of the fragile lunar module lifting off from the moon and rejoining the command ship -- reuniting the three astronauts for a most historic trip home to planet Earth.
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Post by susala on Jul 20, 2011 22:18:20 GMT -5
I loved Eve Arden. I was first exposed to her through Our Miss Brooks but later saw her in lots of black and white movies. Of course, she usually played the same wise-cracking dame but that character really appeals to me.
I had forgotten that Richard Crenna was the squeaky-voiced teen in the TV show. He grew into quite an accomplished and attractive actor.
Thanks for the memories, Peg!
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Post by susala on Jul 20, 2011 22:23:38 GMT -5
An old boyfriend of mine claimed that Neil Armstrong was chosen to be the first man on the moon, in part, because it was such great PR to have so many flight "firsts" from Ohio. The Wright Brothers to Eddie Rickenbacker to John Glenn to Neil Armstrong is petty impressive. Of course, we also had the man who piloted the Enola Gay to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. I can't think of his name at the moment but I actually interviewed him once.
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Post by Miss Who on Jul 21, 2011 0:32:04 GMT -5
An old boyfriend of mine claimed that Neil Armstrong was chosen to be the first man on the moon, in part, because it was such great PR to have so many flight "firsts" from Ohio. The Wright Brothers to Eddie Rickenbacker to John Glenn to Neil Armstrong is petty impressive. Of course, we also had the man who piloted the Enola Gay to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. I can't think of his name at the moment but I actually interviewed him once. Hi Suss, I think it was colonel Paul Tibbets. |
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 21, 2011 9:51:55 GMT -5
BULL RUN DAY It isn’t often that people are invited to a picnic to watch a war; but that’s what happened on this day in 1861. For those of you who weren’t invited or just don’t remember, it was the first major battle of the Civil War between the North and the South. U.S. Federal troops under the leadership of Major General Irwin McDowell attacked Confederate troops led by General Beauregard. It was the Battle of Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, Virginia. The Confederates, with the help of General E. Kirby Smith and General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, held back the Union troops like a stone wall. Many folks, dressed in their Sunday best, came to watch and picnic as 60,000 men fought for over ten hours. When a shell destroyed a wagon blocking the main road of retreat, panic sent Union troops and picnickers scurrying back to Washington D.C
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Post by susala on Jul 21, 2011 15:25:21 GMT -5
You're right, who. It was Colonel Tibbets.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 21, 2011 22:23:36 GMT -5
21 JuL
:)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me.
Today is 202nd day of 2011 with 163 days left in the year
Today in History:
905—Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor (901-05), blinded after a failed invasion of Italy
1209—massacre of Beziers in the Albigensian “Crusade”
1362—Louis I the Great crowned King of Hungary
1403—Henry IV defeated the Percys in the Battle of Shrewsbury in England.
1542—the Inquisition was established in Rome
1667—the Peace of Breda ended the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War and ceded Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.
1711—Russia and Turkey signed the Treaty of Pruth, ending the year-long Russo-Turkish War.
1718—the Treaty of Passarowitz was signed by Austria, Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
1733—John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law Degree given by Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass.
1773—Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded in 1543. He explained that it was an administrative move for the peace of the church. (It was restored in 1814.).
1798—Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Arab Mameluke warriors at the Battle of the Pyramids.
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.
1864—the first daily black newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, was published.
1865—Wild Bill Hickok killed gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Ill., in the first formal quick-draw duel.
1873—Jesse James and his gang pulled off the first train robbery in the US when they took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, Iowa.
1896—Mary Church Terrell founded the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.
1906—French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was vindicated of his earlier court-martial for spying for Germany.
1918—the British House of Lords ratified the Versailles Treaty.
1925—the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution and fined $100. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
1930—Pres. Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).
1931—CBS aired the first regularly scheduled program to be simulcast on radio and television. The show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.
1931—the Reno Race Track inaugurated the daily double in the US.
1940—Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the USSR.
1941—France accepted Japan's demand for military control of Indochina.
1944—the Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president.
1944—US Army and Marines landed on Guam in the Marianas.
1947—Loren MacIvre’s portrait of Emmett Kelly as Willie the Clown appeared on the cover of Life magazine.
1949—the US Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954—the US, Britain and the World Bank turned down Egyptian Pres. Nasser's plea for aid to build the Aswan Dam on the River Nile.
1954—France signed an armistice with the Viet Minh and the Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North and South Vietnam..
1955—Pres. Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the US and the USSR would trade information on each other's military facilities.
1957—Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major US tennis title when she won the Women’s National clay-court singles competition.
1958—the last of Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts programs aired on CBS-TV.
1959—the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, was christened by first lady Mamie Eisenhower at Camden, NJ.
1959—a US District Court judge in New York City ruled that Lady Chatterley’s Lover was not a dirty book.
1960—Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman prime minister of Ceylon.
1961—Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the 2nd American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell.
1967—Sir Basil Rathbone, South African-born English actor (14 Sherlock Holmes films, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro), died at age 75 of a heart attack in New York City
1968—Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make $1 million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship.
1969—Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
1969—Duke Ellington and a portion of his band (piano, drums, bass & vocals) performed a 10-minute composition on ABC-TV titled, "Moon Maiden." just one day after Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 21, 2011 22:28:13 GMT -5
1976—Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Irish Republic, was killed by a bomb planted under his car outside his home.
1979—the National Women’s Hall of Fame was dedicated in Seneca Falls, NY (the location of the first Women’s Rights Convention) to honor women important in American history.
1980—draft registration began in the US for 19- and 20-year-old men.
1980—Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) was injured in a car accident. He died two days later.
1983—Poland ended its 19 months of martial law.
1988—Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta, Ga.
1988—Baroda Airport in India was re-opened after the runway had been blocked by a damaged Boeing 737, which had been charged by a wild bull when it came in to land. The passengers survived; the bull didn't.
1989—former Pres. Reagan was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame for his role as George Armstrong Custer in The Santa Fe Trail (1940) and as host of TV’s Death Valley Days (1965-1966).
1991—Jordan joined Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in agreeing to regional peace talks.
1994—Britain’s Labour Party elected Tony Blair its new leader.
1994—After a two-month trek across Russia following his return from 20 years of exile, Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrived back in Moscow.
1997—the USS Constitution, which defended the US during the War of 1812, set sail under its own power for the first time in 116 years.
1998—the Pentagon said it found no evidence to support allegations in a CNN report that US troops had used nerve gas during a 1970 operation in Laos designed to hunt down American defectors.
1998—Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.. US Navy test pilot, Rear Admiral and NASA astronaut (2nd person and 1st American in space, commander of Apollo 14 and the 5th to walk on the moon), died at age 74 from leukemia in Pebble Beach, Calif. He was one of many famous descendants of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.
1998—Robert George Young, actor (TV: Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), died at age 91 of respirator failure at home in Westlake Village, Calif.
1998—Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, age 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women's vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.
1999—the missing plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. was found off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The bodies of Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette were found on board.
2000—NBC announced that they had found nearly all of Milton Berle's kinescopes. The filmed recordings of Berle's early TV shows had been the subject of a $30 million lawsuit filed by Berle the previous May.
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.
2001—street battles raged for a 2nd day in Genoa, Italy, site of a Group of 8 meeting, despite pleas for calm from protest leaders and global summit leaders alike.
2002—telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
2004—White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government."
2005—four small explosions struck London’s transport system.
2005—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was angry after the abuse of her aides in the Sudan.
2006—Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper assigned a Royal Canadian Air Force plane to pick up Canadians in Lebanon.
2006—Israel massed tanks and troops on its northern border, called up reserves and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon as it prepared for a ground invasion.
2006—Mako [Iwamatsu], the Japan-born actor (Conan the Barbarian, The Sand Pebbles) & voice actor (Abu in Samurai Jack, Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender), died at age 72 from esophageal cancer in Somis, Calif., He used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles to push for better roles for Asian American actors.
2007—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th & final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale
2007—Pratibha Patil became the first woman president of the Republic of India
2008—former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces
2010—a triumphant Pres. Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of US lending and high finance rules since the 1930s.
2010—China launched a najor cleanup operation after a large oil spill.
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