today in history
So today in history...22 years ago that a was brought into this world...
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
1965 "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1977 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"
its funny its really no big deal to me, i havent gone and made any plans and dont intend to or really even told anyone obout it for that matter. it just seams like any outher day i got up same time went to work came home, same as every outher week day only diffrence is today the date matches the one on my drivers licence (whitch i dont even have now, just a yellow piece of paper saying im aloud to drive lol)...why is it that holladays are un-important or un-noteable (maby thats more like it)why dont i get all excyted when its a "special day" like christmas even dosent really perk my intrest...whonder what happened to my "glees sperit" so to speek...oh well this way i dont get hung up on things
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
1965 "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1977 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"
its funny its really no big deal to me, i havent gone and made any plans and dont intend to or really even told anyone obout it for that matter. it just seams like any outher day i got up same time went to work came home, same as every outher week day only diffrence is today the date matches the one on my drivers licence (whitch i dont even have now, just a yellow piece of paper saying im aloud to drive lol)...why is it that holladays are un-important or un-noteable (maby thats more like it)why dont i get all excyted when its a "special day" like christmas even dosent really perk my intrest...whonder what happened to my "glees sperit" so to speek...oh well this way i dont get hung up on things