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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 6, 2011 21:45:04 GMT -5
6 Aug Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me. Today is 218th day of 2011 with 147 days left in the year. Today in History: 258—St. Sixtus II, Pope (257-58) who was beheaded while celebrating services in a cemetery. 1221—St. Dominic, Spanish founder of the Order of Friar Preachers (Dominicans) died at about age 50. The Dominican Order combines the contemplative life of the monk with the active work of the evangelist. 1223—Louis VIII was crowned King of France. 1480—Alfonso of Portugal ceded the Canary Islands to Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain in the Treaty of Alcova. 1497—John Cabot returned to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. 1787—the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began where the articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated. 1806—the Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. 1825—Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia, declaring its independence from Peru. 1862—near Baton Rouge, La., the Confederate ship CSS Arkansas ran aground after experiencing mechanical difficulties during a battle with the USS Essex. The crew destroyed the ship to prevent it from falling into Union hands. 1863—the CSS Alabama captured the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. 1864—Union forces attacked the Confederates at Utoy Creek and were repulsed. 1888—Martha Turner was murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England 1890—convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair as he was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York. 1890—Hall of fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League winning the first of his 511 career victories.
1904—the Japanese army in Korea surrounded a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. 1914—Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I. 1926—19-year-old Gertrude Ederle of New York became the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14 1/2 hours, breaking the men’s record by two hours. 1926—Warner Bros. premiered its Vitaphone system in New York with the movie was Don Juan, starring John Barrymore. 1927—a Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder. 1930—Joseph Force Crater, age 41, a New York Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared. His wife Estelle had him declared legally dead in 1937. 1942—Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands became the first reigning queen to address a joint session of Congress, telling lawmakers that despite Nazi occupation, her people's motto remained, "No surrender 1942—the Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. 1945—the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, commanded by Paul Tibbets, dropped the first atomic bomb (“Little Bou”) on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. 1948—American Bob Mathias, age 17, won the decathlon at the London Olympic Games. 1952—Satchel Paige, age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game, shutting out the Detroit Tigers 1-0. 1952—the Arab League denounced Israel’s attempts to restore relations with Germany. 1956—The Dumont Television Network made its last broadcast — a boxing match. 1960—nationalization of US and foreign-owned property in Cuba began. 1961—Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the 2nd man to orbit Earth as he flew aboard Vostok 2, call sign "Eagle" (hence his repeated exclamation over the radio, “I am Eagle.”) 1962—Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. 1965—Pres. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act , outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.. 1969—Willie "Pops" Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the first fair ball to sail completely out of Dodger Stadium — 506 feet from home plate. 1973—Stevie Wonder was seriously injured in a car accident. He was in a coma for ten days and permanently lost his sense of smell. 1978—Pope Paul VI [aka Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini], Pope of the Catholic Church (1963-78) died at age 80 from a massive heart attack at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence. 1981—fire fighters in Indianapolis, Ind., answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire. 1986—Timothy Dalton became the 4th actor to be named “Bond…James Bond.” Other stars to play the role of the suave, debonair and deadly double agent include: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, with Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond for the 1990s. Daniel Crag is the present incarnation since 2006. 1986—William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart. 1990—the UN Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. 1990—the president of Pakistan dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her government, alleging rampant corruption, and declared a state of emergency. 1991—the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over the Internet. 1991—Harry Truman Reasoner, TV journalist (ABC, CBS News) & a founder of 60 Minutes, died at age 68 from a blood clot on his brain suffered in a fall at his home in Norwalk, Conn. 1992—Pres. Bush granted full diplomatic recognition to the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Croatia, the same day Britain's Independent Television News showed videotape of emaciated detainees at a pair of Serb prison camps. 1993—the US Senate confirmed Louis Freeh to be the director of the FBI. 1994—Randolph County High School, Wedowee, Ala., was destroyed by fire. The principle’s stand against interracial dating had caused much tension in the school. 1995—1000s of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing. 1996—NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil. 1997—Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival. 1997—a Korean Air Boeing 747, Flight 801, plowed into a hillside short of the Guam International Airport, killing 226 of the 254 aboard. “There was a big ball of fire just before the crash,” said Rudy Delos-Santos, a reporter at radio station KOKU who lives near the crash site. The South Korean plane “plowed through the jungle for a minute or so before it came to a rest.” The impact broke the fuselage into six pieces. The tail, with its distinctive Korean Air logo, was the only part of the plane still recognizable. 1999—In Canton, Tex., a 36-year-old woman who faced lifelong heart problems she blamed on the diet drug combination fen-phen was awarded $23.3 million in the first such lawsuit to reach a jury. (The case was settled for less than a tenth of that amount during an appeal.) 1999—Tony Gwynn became the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits.
2000—workers at Verizon, the nation's largest local telephone company, went on an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation. 2000—it was announced that Ice-T would play a detective on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 2001—ending months of speculation, former Pres. Clinton said he would write his much sought-after memoirs for publisher Alfred A. Knopf. 2001—Gen. Duong Van "Big" Minh, who was the president of South Vietnam for just a few days before the country fell to Communist invaders in 1975, died in Pasadena, Calif., at age 85. 2001—Jorge Amado [aka Jorge Leal Amado de Faria], Brazilian author of the Modernist school (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) & educator at the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1961-2001), died at age 88 in Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil. 2005—a senior citizen group sought recovery of Medicare expenses from US cigarette makers. 2006—oil giant BP announced an indefinite shutdown of the biggest oilfield in the US, at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, after finding a pipeline leak. 2007—the Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers. 2007—MLB left handed pitcher Tom Glavine (Atlanta Braves, NY Mets) attained his 300th win 2008—a US military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. 2009—Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31. 2010—in a stunning announcement, Hewlett-Packard Co. said it had ousted CEO Mark Hurd after an investigation of a sexual harassment complaint found that he had falsified expense reports and other documents to conceal a relationship with a contractor.
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Post by susala on Aug 6, 2011 23:31:37 GMT -5
1888—Martha Turner was murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England *********** When I was in London, I took a night-time walking tour of Jack the Ripper sites. It was led by a an English writer/authority on the Ripper whose last name was Fido. I'm not sure why I remember his name almost twenty years later. It was a great evening, very eerie, and we ended it by having a pint in the pub where one of The Ripper's vicitim's worked. I concluded that Jack the Ripper was the Polish butcher. Jack the Ripper was also the name of the first of my criminal kitties. He got the name because he was always trying to rip the buttons off my blouses.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 5:49:14 GMT -5
PURPLE HEART DAY.
t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSo5tYfg9nzqOoEt87_uJu7XGPydJmktIhvzSNbUZ3CV_UnH7Ti [/img]U.S. General George Washington wanted to honor several courageous soldiers of the revolutionary war with a Badge of Military Merit. So, on this day in 1782, he ordered the creation of a purple, cloth heart with a silver, braided edge. The Badge of Military Merit was only awarded to three Revolutionary War soldiers. On the bicentennial of the first U.S. President’s birthday, February 22, 1932, the badge was reinstated. This time it was called the Order of the Purple Heart, a purple-enameled, gold-bordered heart with a profile of Washington in the center. The Purple Heart decorates those members of the United States armed forces who have been wounded in battle (if they die, it is awarded to their next of kin). [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by kelly on Aug 7, 2011 6:25:56 GMT -5
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 6:55:49 GMT -5
kelly, highlight the URL address go to the line of boxes above the smilies, the 4th from the left is images, press this it will place two "img" between [] at each end post it and the picture should appear
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Post by kelly on Aug 7, 2011 12:48:11 GMT -5
Re: Today in History III « Reply #84 Today at 7:55am » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kelly, highlight the URL address go to the line of boxes above the smilies, the 4th from the left is images, press this it will place two "img" between [] at each end post it and the picture should appear .. Peg {I hope you don't mind me calling you that}You and IIF have been very helpful. The img doesn't seem to appear.When I copy I get text. I will play around with it I suppose that I'm doing something really silly. I'll keep you postedThank you.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Aug 7, 2011 14:11:14 GMT -5
Are you going into reply at the bottom of the post?
Its underneath on the blue line
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 16:46:13 GMT -5
Yes, kelly. 1. first highlight your URL address 2. click on reply (not quick reply) on the blue line at the bottom of the previous post. 3. that will bring up the reply box with 3 lines of choices to use when posting (1st line has bold, italic, underilne or /b/i/u), the 2nd line with buttons starting with a red red button and the 3rd ilne one of various available smileys) 3. paste your URL in the box for posting and highlight the URL again. 4. in the middle row, click on the 4th button from the left (images button between the hyperlink button and email button) this should place two brackets with img at the front and end of your URL 5. the picture will not appear at this point. 6. hit the review button to see if you've done it correctly. If so than post it.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 19:28:10 GMT -5
7 Aug Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me. Today is 219th day of 2011 with 146 days left in the year. Today in History: 1316—John XXII [aka Jacques d’Euse] was elected pope (1315-34). He was known for putting the papal finances on a sound basis and strengthening the hierarchy. 1495—the Diet of Worms abolished private warfare in the Holy Roman Empire. 1782—Gen. Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. 1789—the US War Department was established by Congress. 1814—Pope Pius VII restored the Jesuits to full legal status. 1864—Union troops captured part of Confederate Gen. Jubal Early's army at Moorefield, West Virginia. 1882—the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupted into full-scale violence. 1888—Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia received a patent for the revolving door.
1900—trainer ‘Sunny’ Jim Fitzsimmons had his first horse race victory as Agnes D won at Brighton Beach Race Track in New York. By the end of his illustrious 50-year career, Fitzsimmons logged more than 2,000 winners. 1906—in N.C., a mob defied a court order and lynched three African Americans that became known as "The Lyerly Murders." 1907—Walter Johnson pitched his first major league victory by leading the Washington Senators to a 7-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. He would go on to win 414 in his career, second only to Cy Young. 1914—Germany invaded France. 1916—Persia formed an alliance with Britain and Russia. 1922—the Irish Republican Army (IRA) cut the cable link between the US and Europe at the Waterville landing station. 1928—the US Treasury Department issued a new bill that was one third smaller than the previous US bills. 1934—the US Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government's attempt to ban or confiscate the controversial James Joyce novel Ulysses. 1942—the US 1st Marine Division under Gen. A.A. Vandegrift and allied forces landed at Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific and the first amphibious landing of the war. 1944—German forces launched a major counter attack against US forces near Mortain, France. 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; all six crew members reached land safely. 1957—Oliver Hardy, comedian (Laurel and Hardy), died at age 65. 1959—the US launched the Explorer 6 satellite, which sent back images of Earth. 1960—the Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts. 1961—Yale psychology professor Stanley Milgram began conducting his famous — as well as controversial — human behavior experiments concerning obedience toward authority figures. (In the experiment, supervised volunteers were fooled into believing they were punishing a "learner" in an adjacent room for answering test questions incorrectly by administering increasingly strong electrical shocks, although in fact there were no shocks. Most of the "teachers," with verbal prodding, kept delivering what they thought were actual jolts even as the "learner" cried out in pain and banged on the door before falling silent.) 1964—the US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Pres. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on US forces. 1966—the US lost seven planes over North Vietnam, the most in the war up to this point. 1970—Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac as the group’s first female member. She quit touring with the group in 1981. 1971—the Apollo 15 moon mission ended successfully as its command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. 1973—a US plane accidentally bombed a Cambodian village, killing 400 civilians. 1974—French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. 1976—scientists in Pasadena, Calif., announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars. 1981—after 128 years of publication, The Washington Star ceased all operations, leaving only the Washington Post to service the nation’s capital.. 1983—AT&T employees went on strike. 1987—the presidents of five Central American nations, met in Guatemala City, and signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region. 1988—rioting occurred in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park when the police attempted to force out the homeless. 1989—a small plane carrying Congressman Mickey Leland (D-Tex), and 15 others disappeared during a flight in Ethiopia. The wreckage of the plane was found six days later with no survivors. 1990—Pres. Bush ordered US troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq. 1991—former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, age76, was slain, along with his aide, at his home in suburban Paris. 1998—the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed killing 224 people (twelve Americans) and injuring over 5,500. Osama bin Laden was later indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with the attacks.
2000—Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore chose Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate, making him the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket. 2001—three researchers told a committee at the National Academy of Sciences they were not swayed by arguments against human cloning and would soon try to clone human beings. 2001—Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso, died at age 87 in London 2001—the Vatican denounced what it called a "slanderous campaign" against the Roman Catholic Church over the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. 2002—MLB players and owners agreed on the sport’s first tests for steroids. 2002—Saido Arabia's Prince Saud told the Associated Press that the Saudi royal family could not give the US access to bases in the kingdom for an attack on Iraqi Pres. Hussein. In the same statement, it was said that the kingdom did not plan to expel American forces from an air base used for flights to monitor Iraq. 2003—in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor. 2003—Stephen Geppi bought a 1963 G.I. Joe prototype for $200,000. 2004—in Baghdad, Iraq, closed Al-Jazeera's office for 30 days for inciting violence. 2005—Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned in protest of Israel's upcoming Gaza pullout. 2006—oil prices jumped after BP said it had discovered corrosion so severe it would have to replace 16 miles of pipeline at the huge Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. 2006—Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe was sworn in for an unprecedented second term. 2007—Barry Bonds became baseball's career home run leader when he hit No. 756 during a home game in San Francisco, passing Hank Aaron's mark. 2008—the nation of Georgia shelled the capital of breakaway republic South Ossetia. (Russia responded by occupying much of Georgia in a five-day war.) 2009—former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Pres. Obama of proposing a "death panel" that would decide who receives treatment in his health care plan. 2010—Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. 2010—a healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to Pres. Obama to stave off global nuclear war in an address to parliament that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years earlier.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 7, 2011 20:37:57 GMT -5
Yesteryear’s Birthdays: 1533—Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, Caballero de Santiago, Basque-born Spanish nobleman, solider & epic poet (La Araucana), died 1594 at age 61 in Madrid, Spain 1779—Carl Ritter, German geographer considered one of the founders of modern geography & first chair in geography (The Science of the Earth in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), at the University of Berlin (1825-59), died 1859 at age 80 in Berlin, Prussia. 1783—John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery & Member of Parliament (1832-59), died 1861 at age 77 at Bolham House near Tiverton, Devon 1813—Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, abolitionist, suffragist & educator, died 1876 at age 63 in Providence, R.I. 1864—Ellen Fitz Pendleton, educator & president of Wellesley College, died 1936 at age 71 1876—Mata Hari [aka Margaretha Geertruida Zelle], Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan & accused spy, executed by firing squad 1917 at age 41 in Vincennes, France for passing secrets to the Germans during World War I. 1886—Louis Alan Hazeltine, electrical engineer, physicist, founder of the Hazeltine Corp. & inventor of the Neutrodyne circuit, died 1964 at age 77 1903—Louis S. B. Leakey [Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey], Kenyan archaeologist, anthropologist & paleontologist (Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man and His Culture) who believed Africa was the cradle of mankind, died 1972 at age 69 of a heart attack at St Stephen’s Hospital in London. He founded the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi, Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology and The Leakey Foundation. 1904—Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, 1950 Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN diplomat (negotiated 1949 armistice between Israel and the Arab states) & Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs, died 1971 at age 67 died of kidney malfunction due to diabetes and heart disease at New York Hospital in New York City. He was the first African-American to receive a Nobel Prize. 1911—Nicholas Ray [aka Raymond Nicholas Kienzle], movie director (Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life), educator (taught film at Harpur College, Binghamton, NY) & screenwriter, died 1970 at age 67 of lung cancer in New York Cityl 1932—Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian 2-time Olympic gold medal marathon winner (1960, 1964), died 1973 at age 41 from a cerebral hemorrhage in Addis Ababa. He was in an automobile accident in 1969 that left him a paraplegic and his death was related to this accident.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 8, 2011 6:51:41 GMT -5
Where did my purple posts go?
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 8, 2011 7:04:28 GMT -5
DAVIS CUP DAY
On this day in 1900, competition began for the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Mass. Donating the trophy was America’s Dwight Davis. He had been the runner-up in the 1898 U.S. Championships. From then on, the event, the men’s international team championship, was called the Davis Cup. This first event saw the U.S. team defeat Great Britain 3-0. Rain washed out two matches. A Davis Cup meeting between two countries is referred to as a tie. It is a three-day event consisting of two singles matches, one doubles match and then two more singles matches. The team with the greatest number of wins (30) is the United States. Australia follows with twenty wins.
There has been a Davis Cup match every year since 1900 except for 1901, 1910, and the war years of 1915-1918 and 1940-45. Dwight Davis played on the winning team in 1900 and 1902.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 9, 2011 14:36:43 GMT -5
LET'S GO FISHING DAY
A long, long time ago -- several centuries, to be exact -- Isaac Walton (often spelled Isaak Walton) was born in Stafford, England. It was 1593 and his parents had no idea that they were going to raise a fishing expert, and a knighted one, at that. When Isaac was growing up he spent a lot of time studying the art of fishing. By the time he was seventy years old, he had written the masterwork on angling, titled, The Compleat Angler.
Sir Isaac Walton was pretty clear about the fact that no matter how many years you’ve spent fishing, you’ll never quite get it right, even if you read his book. He said, “Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learned.”
Gone fishing.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 9, 2011 22:47:29 GMT -5
9 Aug Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me. Today is 221st day of 2011 with 144 days left in the year. Today in History: 480 BC—the Persian army defeated Leonidas and his Spartan army at the battle Thermopylae, Persia. 48 BC—Julius Caesar defeated Gnaeus Pompey at Pharsalus. 378—at the battle of Adrianople, the Visigoth cavalry defeated the Roman army. 1391—300 Jews were killed in Barcelona riots for refusing baptism. 1471—Sixtus IV became pope, serving until 1484. He forstered the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, condemed the abuses of the Inquisition and launched an extensive building program in Rome (Sistine Chapel, Sistine Bridge). 1483—Pope Sixtus IV celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor. 1549—England declared war on France. 1645—settlers in New Amsterdam gained peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks. 1678—the native Indians sold the Bronx to Jonas Bronck for 400 beads. 1790—the USS Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage, becoming the first ship to carry the American flag around the world. 1797—the Methodist New Connection was formed by Alexander Kilham and three other Methodist clergymen in Leeds, favoring complete separation from the Church of England. 1805—Austria joined Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the 3rd Coalition against France. 1814—Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory. 1831—the first steam locomotive began its first trip between Schenectady and Albany, N.Y. 1842—the US and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. 1848—Martin Van Buren was nominated for president by the Free-Soil Party in Buffalo, N.Y. 1854—Henry David Thoreau published Walden, which described his experiences living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. 1859—the escalator was patented by Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass.. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year. 1862—Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson defeated Union forces under Gen. John Pope at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. 1892—Thomas Edison received a patent for a 2-way telegraph.
1902—Great Britain’s Edward VII was crowned king following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. 1910—the US Patent Office granted Alva J. Fisher of the Hurley Machine Co. a patent for an electrically powered washing machine. 1919—Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer, died at age 51. Leoncavallo turned out to be a one-hit composer his brief but gripping Pagliacci is regularly performed together with another short opera, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. 1930—Betty Boop had her beginning in Dizzy Dishes created by Max Fleischer. 1932—Helen Morgan joined the Victor Young orchestra to record "Bill," from Broadway’s Showboat. 1936—Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay. 1941—Pres. Roosevelt received British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard the USS Augusta off Newfoundland at Placentia Bay; although the two had once met briefly years earlier, this was their first encounter as the leaders of their respective countries. (The next day, Roosevelt visited Churchill aboard his ship, the HMS Prince of Wales.) The talks resulted in the Atlantic Charter defining goals for a post-war world. 1942—Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested Britain and not released until 1944. 1944—the Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear." 1944—258 African-American sailors based at Port Chicago, Calif., refused to load a munitions ship following an explosion on another ship that killed 320 men, many of them black. (50 of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.) 1945—the first network television broadcast occurred in Washington, D.C. announcing the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. 1945—the B-29 bomber Bock’s Car dropped a second nuclear device (Fat Man) over Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimate 39,000, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 1956—the first statewide, state-supported educational television network went on the air in Alabama. 1958—Jordan uncovered a large pro-Nasser spy ring. 1965—Singapore proclaimed its independence from the Malaysian Federation. 1969—actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered in Los Angeles; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime. 1971—LeRoy Satchel Paige, one of baseball’s pitching legends, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. 1973—the US Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair filed suit against President Richard Nixon. 1974—Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the US following the departure of the former president Richard M. Nixon and his family from the White House following Nixon’s resignation. 1975—the New Orleans Superdome as officially opened when the Saints played the Houston Oilers in exhibition football. The new Superdome cost $163 million to build. 1981—major league baseball teams resumed play at the conclusion of the first mid-season players’ strike. 1983—Guatemala’s new military leader, Brigadier General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores lifted a 40-day-old state of alert imposed by the president he ousted, Efrain Rios Montt. 1984—Daley Thompson, of Great Britain, won his second successive Olympic decathlon, Thompson joined Bob Mathias as the only decathletes to win back-to-back gold medals in the event. 1985—a federal judge in Norfolk, Va., found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union. 1988—Pres. Reagan nominated Lauro F. Cavazos to be secretary of education, becoming the first Hispanic in U.S. history to be named to a cabinet position. 1988—NHL star Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers was traded to the Los Angeles Kings per his request. 1989—112 people were killed when a train fell into the San Rafael River in Mexico. The incident was caused by a bridge that collapsed. 1990—the UN declared the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait void. 1991—in South Africa, hundreds of police battled neo-Nazis as pro-apartheid extremists tried to stop a speech by President F.W. de Klerk. 1993—reputed "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to five counts of pandering and one count of selling cocaine. (She was convicted in 1994 of three counts of pandering and acquitted of the drug charge, but the verdicts were later thrown out due to jury misconduct. Fleiss eventually pleaded guilty to attempted pandering.) 1995—Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist & co-founder of the Grateful Dead, died at age 53 of a heart attack at a rehab center in Forest Knolls, Calif. 1996—Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time. 1997—an Amtrak train with nearly 300 people aboard derailed on a bridge near Kingman, Ariz. with more than 100 injured. 1998—In China, engineers dynamited levees along the Yangtze River to ease the worst floods in 44 years. 1999—Russian Pres. Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and his entire cabinet for the fourth time in 17 months.
2000—Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it was recalling six and a-half million tires that had been implicated in hundreds of accidents and at least 46 deaths. 2000—former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin was arrested on a Class B misdemeanor of possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana. 2001—Pres. Bush approved federal funding for existing lines of embryonic stem cells. 2001—a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a central Jerusalem pizzeria at lunchtime, killing himself and 15 other people. 2002—Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th home run, becoming the fourth major leaguer to reach the mark. 2003—the Israeli army killed two of Hamas' bomb makers in a raid. Hamas claimed responsibility for a bomb at an Israeli bus stop on August 12 in response. 2004—Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences on state murder charges in the Oklahoma City bombing. 2004—Donald Duck received the 2,257th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2004—Trump Hotel and Casion Resorts announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 2006—the White House said neither Israel nor Hezbollah should escalate their month-old war, as Israel decided to widen its ground invasion in southern Lebanon. 2006—James A. Van Allen, physicist who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the Earth that now bear his name, died at age 91 of heart failure at University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. 2007—a report stated that a design flaw caused the Minneapolis, Minn. bridge to collapse. 2007—a magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Taiwan. 2008—Bernie Mac [aka Bernard Jeffrey McCullough], actor (Oceans’ Eleven remake, Booty Cal, Charlie’s Angels, Full Throttle, Bad Santa, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: TV: The Bernie Mac Show) & stand-up comedian (The Original Kings of Comedy), died at age 50 in Chicago 2009—the Christian music band MercyMe’s tour bus was in a fatal collision with a car in Indiana. 2010—Ted Stevens, former US Senator from Alaska & longest serving Republican in the Senate, was killed at age 86 in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska while on his way to a fishing trip (four others also died in the crash outside Dillingham). 2010—a fed-up JetBlue flight attendant, Steven Slater, cursed out a passenger he said had treated him rudely, grabbed a beer and slid down the emergency chute of an jetliner at New York's Kennedy Airport
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Post by susala on Aug 10, 2011 0:36:42 GMT -5
1797—the Methodist New Connection was formed by Alexander Kilham and three other Methodist clergymen in Leeds, favoring complete separation from the Church of England. ******************************************************************** And, so, tomorrow, I will go to a nearby park to provide lunch to poor kids as a member of a Methodist mission.
As for the fishing, the little girl, Kelly, that I talked to yesterday, while she was eating, had gone fishing two days before. She was very proud of herself because she had found the worms herself and put them on her hook herself. She wasn't delighed to have to let it go because it was too small. I think that she will go fishing again!
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 10, 2011 1:14:09 GMT -5
Yesteryear’s Birthdays: 1631—John Dryden, poet (Annus Mirabilis. Absalom and Achitophel), the first official Poet Laureate of Great Britain (1668-1700), literary critic (Of Dramatick Poesie), playwright (Marriage a la Mode, All for Love) & translator (The Works of Virgil), died 1700 at age 68 in London and buried in Westminster Abbey. 1633—Sir Isaak Walton, ironmonger & author of the classic The Compleat Angler and Walton’s Lives, died 1683 at age 50 in his daughter’s house in Winchester, Hampshire, England 1896—Jean Piaget, Swiss developmental psychologist famous for his studies of cognitive development in children (The Origins of Intelligence in Children) & philosopher, died 1980 at age 84 of unspecified causes in Geneva, Switzerland 1899—[Pamela Lyndon] P.L. Travers, Australian-born English novelist (Mary Poppins series), actress & journalist, died 1996 at age 96 in London 1901—Charles Farrell, actor (Seventh Heaven, Street , Lucky Star; TV: My Little Margie), developer (w/ Ralph Bellany) of the Palm Springs Racquet Club & mayor of Palm Springs (1953-60), died 1990 at age 88 of a heart attack in Palm Springs, Calif. 1909—Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer, diplomat & would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler, hanged 1944 at age 35 in Berlin’s Plotzensee Prison 1919—Ralph Houk, MLB outfielder (NY Yankees) & manager (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees), died 2010 at age 90 in Winter Haven, Fla. 1927—Robert Archibald Shaw, English actor (Battle of the Bulge, Black Sunday, The Deep, Force 10 from Navarone, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, Jaws, The Sting, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) & novelist (The Sun Doctor, The Man in the Glass Booth), died 1978 at age 51 of a heart attack in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, Ireland. 1934—[Wyatt] Merle Kilgore, Songwriter Hall of Fame (“Ring of Fire”, “More and More”, “Johnny Reb”, “Wolverton Mountain”, “Dear Mama”, “Love Has Made You Beautiful”, “Fast Talking Louisiana Man”), singer & manager, died 2005 at age 70 of congestive heart failure while being treated for cancer in Mexico 1939—Billy Henderson, soul singer & co-fonder of the Spinners, died 2007 at age 67 of complications caused by diabetes. 1942—Tommy (Lee) Agee, MLB center fielder (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, NY Mets [1969 World Seires], Houston Astros, St Louis Cardinals), died 2001 at age 58 of a heart attack at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, NY
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 10, 2011 1:25:28 GMT -5
Today’s Birthdays: 1928—Bob Cousy, NBA Hall of Fame point guard (1957 MVP) & coach for the Boston Celtic 1938—Rod Laver Tennis Hall of Fame Australian champion (Australian Open [1960, 1962, 1969], French Open [1962, 1969], Wimbledon [1961, 1962, 1968, 1969], US Open [1962, 1969] & winner of all four 1969 Grand Slam titles, who is considered by many the best player ever. jazz musician Jack DeJohnette is 69. 1942—David Steinberg comedian (The David Steinberg Show, Second City) & TV host (The Music Scene) 1944—Sam Elliott, actor (Gettysburg, Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; TV: Mission Impossible) singer Barbara Mason is 64. 1952—John Cappelletti, NCAA Football Hall of Fame running back (Penn State) & 1973 Heisman Trophy winner; NFL (LA Rams, San Diego Chargers) 1957—Melanie Griffith. actress (Working Girl, Night Moves, Smile, A Stranger Among Us, Born Yesterday, Mulholland Falls, Lolita [1997], Crazy in Alabama) , daughter of actress Tippi Hedren & wife of Antonio Banderas. 1958—Amanda Bearse, actress (TV: Married…with Children), director (TV: Dharma & Greg, Veronica’s Closet) & comedienne 1959—Kurtis Blow [aka Kurt Walker], rapper (“The Breaks”) & record producer 1963—Whitney Houston Grammy-winning singer (“I Will Always Love You”; “Greatest Love of All”, “You Give Good Love”, “Saving All My Love for You”) & actress (The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale) 1967—Deion Sanders, NFL Hall of Famer cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins) & MLB outfielder (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves) who is the first athlete to appear in a World Series (1992) and a Super Bowl (XXIX) 1968—Gillian Anderson, actress (Future Fantastic, Playing by Heart, The House of Mirth; TV: The X Files)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 10, 2011 8:40:04 GMT -5
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DAY
corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=d5fe71d3-5876-4a30-b028-a5f80fd85453 [/img]The famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was established on August 10th in 1846 by the US Congress as an institute of learning. An Englishman, James Smithson, made it possible to create the institute with his generous monetary gift of $500,000; hence, the name, Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Institution supports a wide variety of research projects and publications. It also houses the national museums of natural history, technology, art and history. One of the most popular is the National Air Museum which contains the Wright Brothers original biplane and Charles Lindbergh’s plane, The Spirit of St. Louis. Often referred to as America’s attic, the Smithsonian has a little something for everyone from every era and pertaining to all subject matter. You’ll even find Archie Bunker’s chair at the Smithsonian Institution! [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 10, 2011 20:20:28 GMT -5
10 Aug Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me. Today is 222nd day of 2011 with 143 days left in the year. Today in History: 955—Otto organized his nobles and defeated the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in Germany. 1539—Francis I, King of France, declared that all official documents are to be written in French, not Latin. 1557—French troops were defeated by Emmanuel Philibert's Spanish army at St. Quentin, France. 1582—Russia ended its 25-year war with Poland. 1628—the Swedish warship Vasa capsized and sunk in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage. 1680—Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico. 1779—Louis XVI of France freed the last remaining serfs on royal land. 1792—during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed the following January.) 1809—Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain. 1821—Missouri became the 24th state. 1831—William Driver of Salem, Mass., was the first to use the term "Old Glory" in connection with the American flag, when he giave that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett. 1846—Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible. 1856—a hurricane came ashore in Louisiana and killed about 400 people. 1859—the first milk inspectors were appointed in Boston, Mass. 1861—Confederate forces routed Union troops in the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the first major engagement of the Civil War to take place west of the Mississippi River. (The victory gave the Confederates control of southwestern Missouri.) 1863—Pres. Lincoln met with abolitionist Frederick Douglass who was pushing for full equality for Union 'Negro troops.' 1864—Union Gen. Philip Sheridan began marching his force toward Winchester, Va. and Confederate Gen, Jubal Early pulled out of the city in advance of Sheridan's arrival. 1864—Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood sent his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman's supply lines. 1869—the motion picture projector was patented by O. B. Brown of Malden, Mass. 1881—Thomas Edison’s exhibit opened the Paris Electrical Exhibition. 1885—America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore, Md. by Leo Daft.
1911—the House of Lords in Great Britain gave up its veto power, making the House of Commons the more powerful House. 1913—the Treaty of Bucharest ended the 2nd Balkan War. 1914—Austria-Hungary invaded Russia during World War I. 1921—Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. 1927—Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated with the individual faces of the presidents dedicated later. 1941—Great Britain and the Soviet Union promised aid to Turkey if it was attacked by the Axis Powers. 1944—US forces overcame the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam. 1945—the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged. 1947—William Odom completed an around-the-world flight and set the solo record by completing the flight in 73 hours and 5 minutes. 1948—Candid Camera made its debut on ABC TV with the original title of Candid Microphone. 1949—the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. 1950—Pres. Truman called the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean War. 1954—construction began on the St Lawrence Seaway. 1954—workers at the Studebaker auto plant in South Bend, Ind. agreed to take pay cuts of from $12 to $20 weekly in an attempt to help the faltering automaker. The plan didn’t help and Studebaker was soon out of business because of increased competition from Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. 1954—Sir Gordon Richards announced his retirement as a jockey to become a trainer. Sir Gordon rode 4,870 winners into the winner’s circle in his 34-year racing career. 1965—in Austin, Tex., a fire burned part of the 20th floor of the 27-story University of Texas main building. A collection that contained items once owned by escape artist Harry Houdini and circus magnate P. T. Barnum were damaged by smoke and water. 1969—Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain. 1977—David Berkowitz, a postal employee & suspect in the ‘Son of Sam’ murders (six killed and seven wounded), was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y. 1981—Pete Rose hit a single and broke the National League all-time hit record held by Stan Musial with his 3,630th hit, making him 3rd behind Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron. 1987—A Chorus Line celebrated its 5,000th performance. It was estimated that 25 million theatre goers had seen the musical since it opened in 1975, 16.7 million on Broadway, with another 8.3 million taking in the touring production. A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on The Great White Way on September 29, 1983 and ended its Broadway run in 1990. 1988—Pres. Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II. 1991—nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Ariz. (Two teen-agers were later arrested; Alessandro Garcia was sentenced to life in prison, while Jonathan Doody received 281 years.) 1993—a massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by Pres. Clinton. 1993—Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice. 1994—Pres. Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones. 1994—three men were arrested in Germany after being caught smuggling plutonium into the country. 1995—Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing — Michael Fortier pled guilty in a plea-bargain agreement that required he testify for the prosecution in the Oklahoma City Federal building bombing trial. 1995—Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. 1999—near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
2000—the California State Legislature approved a bill to make March 31, the birthday of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez (he died in 1993), a holiday for state workers. Gov. Gray Davis signed the bill into law on August 18, 2000. 2001—space shuttle Discovery roared into orbit on a mission to deliver a fresh crew to the international space station. 2001—Britain stepped in to save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government by taking away its powers for a day — a legal maneuver that removed a deadline to elect a new leader of the Catholic-Protestant government. 2003—Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space. 2006—British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the US, using explosives smuggled in hand luggage. The British arrested 24 for their roles and in Pakistan, seven were arrested. 2006—Saomai (sow-my), the most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades, slammed into the country's southeastern coast; it ultimately killed more than 480 people 2006—a suicide bomber blew himself up among pilgrims outside Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine in Najaf, killing 35 people. 2008—American swimmer Michael Phelps won the first of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics by smashing his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley. 2010—the US House of Representatives pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from layoffs; President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law. 2010—talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger quoted the "N-word" 11 times in an on-air conversation with a caller who she said was "hypersensitive" to racism; Schlessinger ended up apologizing. 2010—David L. Wolper, Hollywood TV & film producer (Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, LA Confidential, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; TV documentaries: The Race for Space, The Hellstrom Chronicle [1972 Oscar]), died at age 82 of congestive heart failure & complications of Parkinson’s disease in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Post by susala on Aug 10, 2011 21:25:35 GMT -5
1944—Sam Elliott, actor (Gettysburg, Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; TV: Mission Impossible) *******************************************************
Ooh la la!
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