What are the 'stacks' people ?

The stacks of shelves. Took me awhile to figger that out when I first started here.:)

PS Alos today is the anniversary of the Easter Uprising.

Today is it, didnt know that Ren, well done.
Nothing about it here, shows how early Easter was this year.

25 April

1684 - A patent was granted for the thimble.



1792 - The guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier.


1945 - Delegates from about 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.


1990 - The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope was placed into Earth's orbit. It was released by the space shuttle Discovery.

Lots of scientific stuff going on today, I see....especially the first use of that-there guillotine.

It's not true that Dr. Guillotine was executed by use of his very own invention. I believe he died peacably in his bed. Sometimes I wonder where some of thse stories come from.

26 April


1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.


1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO.


1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.


1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time.


1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. 31 died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

27 April


1509 - Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice.


1805 - A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.


1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.


1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan.

Pampers--great invention.:)

Pampers--great invention.:)


I think a great majority of mothers would agree with that. :D

28 April


1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published.


1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.


1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.


1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He sited religious grounds for his refusal.


1974 - The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon.

1.1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published.


2. - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.







1. Several years ago, I read about either a high school or college kid who found an error in Principia. It was just a minor arithmetic error but the fact it had gone unnoticed for all those years made headlines--that and the idea that the great and godlike Newton could actually make a mistake.(kinda like me)

2. Bligh and his loyal men crossed some 3 thousand miles of open sea in that dinky rowboat to finally land safely and see to it that some of the Bounty mutineers were hanged from the highest yardarms in England. The incredible story of the Bounty and her loyal and disloyal men will be told as long as men sail the sea.

29 April


1429 - Joan of Arc lead Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.


1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.


1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.


1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.


1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.

That is something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime--the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Communists seemed to have that area in a stranglehold that'd last for eons.

But when there's massive crop failures and people get hungry, look out.

It was fun seeing the statues of Lenin in the defunct USSR toppled too--something I never thought I'd see either.

PS. Many years ago we had a neighbor who'd gone over the Wall. His name was Joksimovick. He was a Slav--he'd probably been caught in Berlin after the surrender.

The Berlin Wall was able to be removed because the people on both sides wanted the same thing,and it posed a barrier.

In Belfast here there are numerous walls seperating communities, the biggest of which has coach loads of tourists up writing on it and snapping away everyday.

There have been suggestions that it to should come down,tho I myself think the people on both sides of it arent ready yet.

29th April

1992: Los Angeles erupts in rioting after the aquital of four white LAPD officers of beating Rodney King.

29th April

1992: Los Angeles erupts in rioting after the aquital of four white LAPD officers of beating Rodney King.
Yup, Sublime has a song about those riots. Good song too.

29th April

1992: Los Angeles erupts in rioting after the aquital of four white LAPD officers of beating Rodney King.

And wasn't that a fun day? :(

I was working at Olympic Blvd/Beverwill that afternoon, and the fires and rioting kept getting closer and closer and closer. We rolled down the building's iron gates and everyone moved to the rear of the building (no windows) till later in the day when things began to quiet down at our intersection. Then everyone ran to their cars in the basement, lined up at the exit gate, and when they rolled it up we all zoomed out and raced home. Calls went around an hour later to be sure everyone arrived safely, then I sat down and watched news coverage of the fires that burned through the night just a few blocks from my office.

Bad, bad, bad. :(

And wasn't that a fun day? :(

I was working at Olympic Blvd/Beverwill that afternoon, and the fires and rioting kept getting closer and closer and closer. We rolled down the building's iron gates and everyone moved to the rear of the building (no windows) till later in the day when things began to quiet down at our intersection. Then everyone ran to their cars in the basement, lined up at the exit gate, and when they rolled it up we all zoomed out and raced home. Calls went around an hour later to be sure everyone arrived safely, then I sat down and watched news coverage of the fires that burned through the night just a few blocks from my office.

Bad, bad, bad. :(

Yeah,if I remember,I might be wrong,wasnt a motorist dragged from his car and killed that nite ?

Yeah,if I remember,I might be wrong,wasnt a motorist dragged from his car and killed that nite ?
it was a truck driver, and he lived even after having a cinder block bounced off his head.

it was a truck driver, and he lived even after having a cinder block bounced off his head.

I think I remember the truck incident. I keep visualising a 'intersection' I think ya call it, and a guy getting pulled from his car tho.

30 April


1563 - All Jews were expelled from France by order of Charles VI.


1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president.


1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express."


1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.

Tut tut guys,your holding out here.

30th April
1975: The war in Vietnam ended today as the Government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to North Vietnamese Forces.

1 May


1486 - Christopher Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund an expedition to the West Indies.


1883 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) had his first Wild West Show.


1922 - Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect no-hit, no-run game against the Detroit Tigers. The Sox won 3-0. Another perfect game did not come along until 46 years later.


1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.


1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.



1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.



1986 - Bill Elliott set a stock car speed record with his Ford Thunderbird in Talladega, AL. Elliott reached a speed of 212.229 mph.

1922 - Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect no-hit, no-run game against the Detroit Tigers. The Sox won 3-0. Another perfect game did not come along until 46 years later.










- Bill Elliott set a stock car speed record with his Ford Thunderbird in Talladega, AL. Elliott reached a speed of 212.229 mph.



What a FASCINATING day in history!!!
PS. That race at Talladega last Sunday was the worst score I've ever had for NASCAR fantasy. I love the plate racing but those multiple multi-car wrecks sure wreak havoc on my poor team. Am clinging to first place tho, with 2 races to go for the segment and a two hundred dollar payoff. Next up--Richmond under the lights!

2 May


1670 - The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England's King Charles II.


1776 - France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.


1887 - Hannibal W. Goodwin applied for a patent on celluloid photographic film. This is the film from which movies are shown.


1933 - Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.


1965 - The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.

3 May


1888 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works.


1916 - Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.


1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.


1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.


1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time.

May 5, 1961



The first American in space

From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

NASA was established in 1958 to keep U.S. space efforts abreast of recent Soviet achievements, such as the launching of the world's first artificial satellite--Sputnik 1--in 1957. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the two superpowers raced to become the first country to put a man in space and return him to Earth. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet space program won the race when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, put in orbit around the planet, and safely returned to Earth. One month later, Shepard's suborbital flight restored faith in the U.S. space program.

NASA continued to trail the Soviets closely until the late 1960s and the successes of the Apollo lunar program. In July 1969, the Americans took a giant leap forward with Apollo 11, a three-stage spacecraft that took U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon and returned them to Earth. On February 5, 1971, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, became the fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.

5 May

Cinco de Mayo

1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.


1847 - The AMA (American Medical Association) was organized in Philadelphia, PA.


1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States.


1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.


1991 - In New York, Carnegie Hall marked its 100th anniversary.

May 7, 1469 Niccolo Machiavelli was born


May 7, 1902 Martinique’s Mount Pele begins the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. The following day, the city of Saint Pierre, which some called the “Paris” of the Caribbean, was virtually wiped off the map.


May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims

May 8th in History

1902: The volcano Mount Pelee, in the Caribbean, erupts, killing 30,000 people

1911: Iceland gives the vote to women

1933: Gandhi, in India, begins a hunger strike in protest against the British

1945: Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared

1950: American General MacArthur becomes comander of the UN forces in Korea

1984: The USSR and Warsaw Pact countries announce they will boycott the Los Angeles Olympics. (note--thus ensuring that American gymnasts would FINALLY win something, seeing as how all the good competition stayed home)

May 9

1914
Mother's Day became a public holiday.

1926
Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.

1936
Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia

So I studied WWII in history... And I kinda get the feeling that Italy was a bit of a joke to everyone. The Allies were concentrating on Germany and Japan, while the Nazis had to keep going in and bailing Italy out of everything... :p

while the Nazis had to keep going in and bailing Italy out of everything... :p

Fast forward to 2008, where Lufthansa is considering bailing out the failing Alitalia.

10 May


1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies.


1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, Utah. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.


1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.


1960 - The U.S.S. Triton completed the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip started on February 16.


1999 - The Cezanne painting "Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" sold for 60.5 million.

11 May

1653 - Construction begins on the Wall Street Wall, NYC.


1920 - Oxford University permits the admission of women.


1947 - The B.F. Goodrich company of Akron, Ohio announces the development of a tubeless tire.


1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.

May 12, 1932

Body of Lindbergh baby found

The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found on this day in 1932, more than two months after he was kidnapped from his family’s Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion.

Lindbergh, who became the first worldwide celebrity five years earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note in their 20-month-old child's empty room on March 1. The kidnapper had used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and had left muddy footprints in the room. The ransom note demanded $50,000 in barely literate English.

The crime captured the attention of the entire nation. The Lindbergh family was inundated by offers of assistance and false clues. Even Al Capone offered his help from prison, though it of course was conditioned on his release. For three days, investigators had found nothing and there was no further word from the kidnappers. Then, a new letter showed up, this time demanding $70,000.

It wasn't until April 2 that the kidnappers gave instructions for dropping off the money. When the money was finally delivered, the kidnappers indicated that little baby Charles was on a boat called Nelly off the coast of Massachusetts. However, after an exhaustive search of every port, there was no sign of either the boat or the child.

On May 12, a renewed search of the area near the Lindbergh mansion turned up the baby's body. He had been killed the night of the kidnapping and was found less than a mile from the home. The heartbroken Lindberghs ended up donating the home to charity and moved away.

The kidnapping looked like it would go unsolved until September 1934, when a marked bill from the ransom turned up. Suspicious of the driver who had given it to him, the gas station attendant who had accepted the bill wrote down his license plate number. It was tracked back to a German immigrant, Bruno Hauptmann. When his home was searched, detectives found $13,000 of Lindbergh ransom money.

Hauptmann claimed that a friend had given him the money to hold and that he had no connection to the crime. The resulting trial again was a national sensation. Famous writers Damon Runyan and Walter Winchell covered the trial. The prosecution's case was not particularly strong. The main evidence, apart from the money, was testimony from handwriting experts that the ransom note had been written by Hauptmann and his connection with the type of wood that was used to make the ladder.

Still, the evidence and intense public pressure was enough to convict Hauptmann. In April 1935 he was executed in the electric chair.

Kidnapping was made a federal crime in the aftermath of this high-profile crime.

12 May


1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.


1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.


1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.


1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.

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


1842 Composer Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London.


1846 The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.


1914 Boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala.


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


1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

14 May


1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner.



1853 - Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.



1878 - The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.



1897 - Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.



1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.

1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner.



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A great man of science. Dr Jenner had noticed that people who'd contacted cowpox, a milder form of smallpox, never got the deadly disease of smallpox, which killed thousands a year and scarred thousands more. He made a crude vaccine by drawing blood from cows that had the cowpox, then injected himself. Later he deliberately exposed himself to smallpox...what if this hadn't worked?

He would've received the Nobel Prize for Medicine (much like Dr Salk did 150 years later) if the award had been around then.

I've always admired these brave and great men of medicine.

On this date:May 15

In 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it was a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

In 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oakland, Calif.-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines.

In 1942, wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.

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

16 May


1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England set up the Afghan state.


1914 - The American Horseshoe Pitchers Association (AHPA) was formed in Kansas City, Kansas.


1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.


1965 - Spaghetti-O's went on sale.


1971 - U.S. postage for a one-ounce first class stamp was increased from 6 to 8 cents.

17 May


1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter's surface.


1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.


1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, Kentucky.


1932 - The U.S. Congress changed the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico."


1948 - The Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel.


1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.

18 May


1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.


1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. It was the first law of its kind.


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


1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.


1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.

1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.

A volcano scientist was atop the mountain doing readings just before the explosion. He'd been up there for weeks. The scientific communtiy had been enthralled by this event. His last words were "This is it!"
Kablam.

Anyone remember the old guy who lived in a cabin near the mountain and refused to evacuate?
He claimed he had lived on the mountain nearly all his life and wasn't leaving come hell or high water.

He was one of the victims--in fact, they never found either his body OR his cabin.

... Anyone remember the old guy who lived in a cabin near the mountain and refused to evacuate?
He claimed he had lived on the mountain nearly all his life and wasn't leaving come hell or high water. ...

Gent's name was Harry Truman (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mountsthelens/hary11.shtml), "a salty curmudgeon who lived his life the way he really wanted to live. He was a tough man with a gentle side.".

20 May


1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.


1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior


1775 - North Carolina became the first colony to declare its independence.


1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.


1874 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.

- The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde. [/CENTER]




We were just talking this AM about fountain pens and how much fun they are to write with...I used to have one several years ago, but lost it..... a nice, smooth writing experience but can stain your fingers and hands badly if you're not careful.

I should never use a fountain pen... I manage to stain my hands even with regular pens! (This is mainly because I'm a lefty and my hand drags over the paper as I write, smearing ink all over myself...)

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2008. There are 224 days left in the year.

On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.



In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.


In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago.

Today is Thursday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2008. There are 223 days left in the year.

On May 22, 1807----Aaron Burr is indicted for treason. (And what a joke THAT was)

On May 22, 1968, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)

On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

26 May


1647 - A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty was banishment or death for a second offense.


1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the "Wall Street Journal."


1938 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.


1946 - A patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb.


1959 - The word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O.

1647 - A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty was banishment or death for a second offense.




Here's more on this:

...in 1647, Massachusetts Bay banned Jesuit priests from the colony on penalty of death. The English Puritans who settled the colony feared the Jesuits for several reasons. First, simply because they were Catholic. To Puritans, Catholicism was nothing less than idolatrous blasphemy, and Catholics were destined for eternal damnation. Second, because the Jesuits were French, and France and England were engaged in a bitter struggle for control of North America. Finally, Jesuit missionaries had converted large numbers of Indians in Canada to Catholicism. Indian converts were potential allies of France and enemies of the English. Although no Jesuit was executed for defying the ban, the legacy of anti-Catholicism in Massachusetts survived for generations.

Here's more on this:

...in 1647, Massachusetts Bay banned Jesuit priests from the colony on penalty of death. The English Puritans who settled the colony feared the Jesuits for several reasons. First, simply because they were Catholic. To Puritans, Catholicism was nothing less than idolatrous blasphemy, and Catholics were destined for eternal damnation. Second, because the Jesuits were French, and France and England were engaged in a bitter struggle for control of North America. Finally, Jesuit missionaries had converted large numbers of Indians in Canada to Catholicism. Indian converts were potential allies of France and enemies of the English. Although no Jesuit was executed for defying the ban, the legacy of anti-Catholicism in Massachusetts survived for generations.
and lead to Maryland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland#History) :D

and lead to Maryland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland#History) :D

Or Connecticut.
My family was in Massachusetts Bay. Yep, I come from multiple lines of hardcore Puritans. We used to hang witches in Salem because we were bored.

Seriously, the hardliners in the Bay Colony drove many away. Some of those who left were my own kin--the Spencers, the Fullers, the Crippens, and the Brainards. We went to Connecticut with Thomas Hooker, who founded the CT Colony. People were more tolerant there. Granted, they would be considered pretty radical today--but for those times, they were definitely more tolerant than in the Bay Colony.

28 May

585 BC - Thales Miletus predicted a solar eclipse.


1892 - The Sierra club was organized in San Francisco, CA.


1929 - Warner Brothers debuted "On With The Show" in New York City. It was the first all-color-talking picture.


1953 - The Walt Disney film "Melody" premiered in the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood. The picture was the first 3-D cartoon.


1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.

May 29, 1765 ----Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"



PS. Other stuff happened today too--unfortunately, it was dull.

29 May


1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.


1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.


1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.


1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.


1978 - In the U.S., postage stamps were raised from 13 cents to 15 cents.

29 May


1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.


1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.


1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.


1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.


1978 - In the U.S., postage stamps were raised from 13 cents to 15 cents.

See?
I told you it was dull.
(With the exception of the Mt Everest story)

May 29 1914.

The Empress of Ireland collides with a freighter on the St Lawrence seaway.
1000 drown.

30 May


1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.


1889 - The brassiere was invented.


1911 - Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes. The 500-mile auto race later became known as the Indianapolis 500. Harroun's average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.


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


1967 - Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.


1997 - Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ, of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.

31 May


1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.


1879 - New York's Madison Square Garden opened.


1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.


1927 - Ford Motor Company produced the last "Tin Lizzie" (Model T) in order to begin production of the Model A.


1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived in Moscow in an effort to relieve Cold War tensions. He was the first president to do so in 14 years.

1 June


1774 - The British government ordered the Port of Boston closed.


1869 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.


1935 - The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney.


1938 - Superman, the world's first super hero, appeared in the first issue of Action Comics.


1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.

1 June

1778: A group of people from Malaga, most from Alhaurin de la Torre, set off in a brig 'San Jose' for New Orleans were they found the city of Nueva Iberia.

1911 - Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes. The 500-mile auto race later became known as the Indianapolis 500. Harroun's average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.


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Harroun's Marmon Wasp is on display at the Speedway Museum, along withn Offy roadsters and other historic cars. It's one of the most popular displays there.

June 2

1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.

In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."



In 1941, baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.

3 June


1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.


1784 - The United States Congress created the United States Army.


1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.


1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.


1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

I thought Michael Jackson was the first to do a spacewalk :(

I thought Michael Jackson was the first to do a spacewalk :(

And it's too bad he didn't spacewalk himself to Jupiter.

Also this day in the year 455, the Vandals ransacked Rome

Also this day in the year 455, the Vandals ransacked Rome

I take it they wrecked the place then.

I take it they wrecked the place then.

link: http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/455/june_2_455_30294.html :)

I take it they wrecked the place then.
that's why they call it vandalism:thumbs:

4 June


1717 - The Freemasons were founded in London.


1892 - The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.


1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.


1954 - French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris giving "complete independence" to Vietnam.


1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers.


1974 - Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army.

On a personal note, my Dad was a 32nd Degree Mason. My grandpa was also a Freemason, Scottish Rite. These gentlemen do good work, even tho their rituals and methodology are shrouded in secrecy. Neither Dad nor Grandpa ever told us a single thing about what went on at their meetings, even tho we begged continously.

Also today: 1939 – The German ocean liner SS St. Louis, carrying 963 Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to land in the United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.

1989:

Massacre in Tiananmen Square Beijing.
Hundreds of pro democracy protestors are gunned down by troops to put an end to any challange to Communist rule in China.

In the aftermath, thousands are arrested and imprisoned, we sat back and done nothing.

I thought Michael Jackson was the first to do a spacewalk :(

Maybe you're thinking of the moonwalk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalk_%28dance%29) as performed by Michael Jackson.

I was.
He is a spacer, thats were I got confused, thanks.

1989:

Massacre in Tiananmen Square Beijing.
Hundreds of pro democracy protestors are gunned down by troops to put an end to any challange to Communist rule in China.

In the aftermath, thousands are arrested and imprisoned, we sat back and done nothing.

we remember (http://hivearchive.com/images/tankman.jpg).

5 June


1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.


1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.


1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.


1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.


1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.

6 June


1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.


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


1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.


1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.


1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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[CENTER]1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.



We are flying our flag in honor of this historic invasion.

Last night my son and I were looking at his new book--a birthday gift. It's a beautiful book called "Fifty Battles That Changed the World"--he's a budding military historian. In this book, it called the landing at Omaha a disaster, because so many Americans died--something like 3000 men never reached the shore at Omaha that day.

- Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity. [/CENTER]







How would it have changed history if Ben had been struck by lightning and fried like a pancake?

How would it have changed history if Ben had been struck by lightning and fried like a pancake?
'could have been a short Revolution without Ben in Paris.:(

'could have been a short Revolution without Ben in Paris.:(


That's for sure--chances are, the Continentals would've disbanded a few months into the winter at Valley Forge.

That's for sure--chances are, the Continentals would've disbanded a few months into the winter at Valley Forge.

Perhaps they should have given the Brithish soldiers a bunch of kite and told them how well they fly in the gusty winds of thunderstorms.

9 June


68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.


1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.


1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.


1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."


1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.

10 June


1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.


1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspaper to cover the sport of harness racing.


1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.


1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.


1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.


1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

11 June


1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.


1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove.


1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.


1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.


1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened.


1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

12 June


1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.


1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.


1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.


1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.


1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which the game was invented by Abner Doubleday.


1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.


1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.

13 June


1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.


1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.


1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.


1966 - The landmark "Miranda vs. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.


1981 - At a parade in London a teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.
the sad thing is that they would need to make that ruling.

the sad thing is that they would need to make that ruling.

There's got to be a fascinating story there - hopefully not tragic.

There's got to be a fascinating story there - hopefully not tragic.

Indeed.

"1913- Collect-on-delivery
A staggering variety of goods went by parcel post through the years. Farm fresh eggs, a mainstay of the early service, were among the first items sent. Baby chicks--not a favorite among carriers due to their noise, smell, and tendency to expire en route--also traveled by parcel post in specially constructed boxes.
In the pre-World War I days, before the practice was banned, even children were sent parcel post. A mother involved in an acrimonious divorce in 1914 shipped a baby from Stillwell to South Bend, Indiana, where its father, who had won custody, resided. For 17 cents, the child
traveled in a container marked "Live Baby." Postal workers saw to its safe arrival.
That same year, the parents of a blonde four-year-old named May Pierstroff sent her from Grangeville, Idaho, to her grandparents in another part of the state for 53 cents, the going rate for mailing chickens. May, who rode in the mail car with postage stamps attached to her coat, was safely delivered by a mail clerk. Word of her excursion soon prompted the Post Office Department to forbid sending any human being by mail."

http://www.slahs.org/history/local/postal/timeline.htm

Google is a wonderful thing. :)

I already knew about this, having been an intern at the Postal Museum. Quite interesting. :)

Compare that with the woman who was arrested for leaving her baby in the car while she walked 30 feet away to put money in the Salvation Army kettle.

14 June


1775 - The Continental Army was founded by the Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. On June 15, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.


1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine and Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper.


1864 - Alois Alzheimer was born. He was a psychiatrist/pathologist, and in 1907 he wrote an article describing the disease that is named for him.


1951 - "Univac I" was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the world's first commercial computer.


1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested in Beverly Hills for slapping a motorcycle policeman.

15 June


1215 - King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.


1667 - Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion.


1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for the process that strengthens rubber.


1911 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.


1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher.