Today’s History: °97 To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany. °1553 Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland. °1612 A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks. ◦1728 Captain James Cook was born. British explorer who charted and named many Pacific Islands, including the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). °1791 President George Washington transmits to Congress the results of the first US census, exclusive of South Carolina which had not yet submitted its findings. °1806 Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin. ◦1806 Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle was born. A Swiss botanist, author of ‘Origin of Cultivated Plants.’ °1809 President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority. °1862 A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. °1870 The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army. ◦1872 Emily Post was born. (or on October 3, 1873). Etiquette expert, newspaper columnist, author of ‘Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home’ (1922); ‘The Emily Post Cook Book’ (1949); ‘Motor Manners’ (1950). °1873 Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire. °1891 D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box. ◦1904 The first subway (underground) rail system in New York City began operating. The Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) line was 21 miles long. °1907 The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ends in Germany. °1917 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections. °1922 In Italy, liberal Luigi Factas cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome. Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists. °1927 Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released. ◦1930 ‘Gorgonzola’ was recorded by Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with Leslie Sarony. °1941 In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: America has been attacked, the shooting has started. He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step. °1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the US Air Force. °1962 American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis. °1962 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey. °1964 The political career of future US president Ronald Reagan is launched when he delivers a speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. °1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo renamed Zaire. ◦1975 Rex Stout, American crime writer died. More than 70 of his novels and stories feature the fictional gourmand/gourmet detective, Nero Wolfe. Archie Goodwin, the detective’s assistant, described him as weighing “one seventh of a ton” (about 286 pounds). Shad Roe and Duck were two of Wolfe’s favorites, and he also consumed copious amounts of beer. Stout also published ‘The Nero Wolfe Cookbook’ in 1973. °1986 London Stock Exchange rules change as Britain suddenly deregulates financial markets, an event called the Big Bang. °1988 US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure. °1997 Stock markets crash around the world over fears of a global economic meltdown. sunnymoondj
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