Good Morning! Happy Friday eve! This Day in History: 334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus 760 - 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet 1176 - Murder attempt by Assassins on Saladin near Aleppo 1200 - Peace of Goulet 1377 - Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. 1455 - Opening battle in Englands 30-year War of the Roses. Richard of York takes St Albans, capturing King Henry VI 1570 - 1st atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps 1761 - 1st life insurance policy in North America issued in Philadelphia 1807 - Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond, Va (acquitted) 1807 - Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila) 1819 - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1826 - The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. 1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales (Australia) colony is abolished. 1842 - Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a large gaping hole in the ground. 1843 - Great Emigration; 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon 1849 - Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device 1856 - Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner 1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg 1863 - War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops 1868 - Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash. 1872 - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500 military leaders of the Confederacy) 1888 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers 1892 - Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube 1900 - Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 1900 - Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player 1903 - Launch of the White Star Liner SS Ionic. 1906 - Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane 1915 - Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century. 1926 - Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue by Gene Austin hits #1 1928 - US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act 1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida 1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay 1933 - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 1939 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini sign Pact of Steel 1940 - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis 1940 - UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city 1942 - Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan 1942 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. 1943 - 1st jet fighter is tested 1943 - RAF scatters 1st copies of The Flying Hollander 1943 - Stalin disbands Komintern 1945 - 6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 1945 - NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen makes failed suicide attempt 1947 - Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece 1947 - 1st US ballistic missile fired 1953 - US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill 1954 - Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed 1955 - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th 1956 - Bob Hope Show last airs on NBC-TV 1957 - South Africa government approves race separation in universities 1959 - Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black major general in US Air Force 1961 - 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle) opens 1962 - Major Robert A Rushworth, USAF, takes X-15 to 30,600m 1963 - Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadiums facade 1964 - LBJ presents Great Society 1965 - Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious hits #66 1965 - Beatles Ticket to Ride single goes #1 1967 - Mister Rogers Neighborhood debuts on NET (now PBS) 1967 - Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel 1969 - Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface 1972 - Ton Sijbrands becomes world checkers champion 1972 - US president Nixon begins visit to Moscow 1973 - President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up 1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-179 1981 - Soyuz 40 returns to Earth 1985 - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR 1986 - Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC 1990 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 1992 - Johnny Carsons final appearance as host of Tonight Show 1997 - Kelly Flinn, US Air Forces first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial. 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton. 2002 - In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park. 2002 - American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. 2004 - The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident. 2010 - Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral, Poland after a 200 year search for his tomb., 2011 - An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:28:20 +0000
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