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On January 22, 1968, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" debuted on NBC TV...
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On January 23, 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later...
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On January 24, 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that income tax was unconstitutional...
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On Jan 24 1965 Winston Churchill died. He was ninety. Guess all those cigars and all that hard liqueur are actually good for you. I may have to enjoy a Cohiba and some Jack this evening in his honor.
He's one of my favorite historical figures. He was known for not taking shit from anyone and had a knack for speaking his mind. This lead to numerous fantastic quotes. One of my favorites is: At a dinner party he uttered something that parties hostess took offense to and she quickly quipped: "Sir, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea!" "Madame, If you were my wife I'd drink it" |
On January 25, 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families...
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On January 26, 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day...
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On January 27, 1870, Kappa Alpha Theta, the first women’s sorority, was founded at Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, IN...
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On January 28, 1922, the National Football League (NFL) franchise in Decatur, IL, transferred to Chicago. The team took the name Chicago Bears...
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On January 29, 1985, the Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 1,292.62...
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On January 30, 1933, "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955...
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On January 31, 1985, the final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Toledo, OH...
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On February 1, 1884, the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published...
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On Decembar 2, 1892, William Painter patented the crown-cork bottle cap...
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On December 3, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax...
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On February 4, 1957, Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds...
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On This Day in History - February 5
1846 - The Oregon Spectator became the first newspaper published in American territory west of the Rocky Mountains. 1861 - Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, OH patented the moving picture peep show machine. One put in a coin and turned a crank on the side of the ornately decorated box and voila, a flickering movie appeared! There still are peep shows today, but of an entirely different variety. They cost between $5.00 and $25.00 a peep, we’re told. 1916 - Enrico Caruso recorded O Solo Mio for the Victor Talking Machine Company, which eventually became Victor Records, then RCA Victor. 1928 - Singer Jessica Dragonette was seen on one of the first television shows. She was used only to test the new medium. She didn’t even get to sing. Now, before you start feeling too badly for Jessica, it must be noted that she enjoyed an illustrious radio career. For more, be sure to tune in to Those Were the Days on February 18th... 1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot. She was only airborne for one minute, successfully executing two ‘S’ curves and a landing. Nice job, Maxine! 1931 - Eddie Cantor’s long radio career got underway as he appeared on Rudy Vallee’s The Fleischmann Hour. 1937 - Modern Times, the first Charlie Chaplin talkie, was released. Actually, Chaplin’s voice was heard in the film, although he was difficult to understand because he was just singing a bunch of gibberish that no one understood. The star of the movie was Paulette Goddard, who played the part of a waif. 1940 - Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted on radio. Joy Hathaway starred as ‘the beauty of flaming red hair’. The program stayed for six years on the NBC radio network. 1940 - One of the great classic songs of the Big Band era was recorded. Glenn Miller and his band played Tuxedo Junction at the RCA Victor studios in Manhattan. The flip side of the record (released on the Bluebird label) was Danny Boy. 1953 - Walt Disney’s film, Peter Pan, opened at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. Although the film is now recognized as a great work, not all of the critics in 1953 took to the Disney stylization of the J.M. Barrie play. 1958 - A year after its founding, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) formed a New York chapter. NARAS is better known as the Grammy Awards organization. 1961 - The Shirelles were winding up their first week at #1 on the music charts with Will You Love Me Tomorrow. The song was at the top for two weeks. It was the group’s first #1 tune and the first #1 tune from the pen of a New York Brill Building songwriter who worked right down the hall from Neil Sedaka. She became a huge star in her own right with several #1 singles and albums in the 1970s. Her name: Carole King. 1969 - For one of the few times in television history, a scheduled series (usually 13 or 26 weeks of shows) turned into a one-night wonder. ABC-TV premiered Turn On, hosted by Tim Conway, a show similar to NBC’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. TV critics called the show, “offbeat and distasteful.” It never aired again. 1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. Douglas not only coached the New York Renaissance, an all-black team which won 88 consecutive games in 1933, he owned the team. 1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point mark for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49. 1997 - Investment companies Morgan Stanley Group Inc. and Dean Witter, Discover & Co. announced their intention to merge. The $10 billion deal, completed on May 31, 1997, created the largest U.S. securities firm. 1999 - These films opened in the U.S.: Payback, with Mel Gibson and Gregg Henry; Rushmore, starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox and and Bill Murray; and Simply Irresistible, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Flanery. Birthdays February 5 1744 - John Jeffries physician and one of America’s first weather forecasters: kept detailed records of weather conditions [1774-1816]; died Sep 16, 1819 1788 - Robert Peel English statesman; died July 2, 1850; see Bobbie Day [above] 1900 - Adlai Stevenson Democratic party candidate for US president [1952, 1956]; governor of Illinois, UN representative from U.S. [1961-1965]; died July 14, 1965 1906 - John (Richmond Reed) Carradine ‘The Bard of the Boulevard’ actor: appeared in over 200 films including: The Bride of Frankenstein, Captains Courageous, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, House of Dracula; died Nov 27, 1988 1914 - William Seward Burroughs II Beat Generation writer: Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The Adding Machine, The Western Lands; died in 1997; died Aug 2, 1997 1919 - Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) comedian, actor: The Red Buttons Show, The Longest Day, The Poseidon Adventure, Sayonara, They Shoot Horses Don’t They; died July 13, 2006 1922 - Bernard Kalb news reporter, commentator 1923 - Claude King singer: Wolverton Mountain, All for the Love of a Girl; actor: The Blue & The Gray 1928 - Andrew Greeley author: Happy are the Merciful, An Occasion of Sin 1929 - Al (Allan Fulton) ‘Red’ Worthington baseball: pitcher: NY Giants, SF Giants, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965] 1930 - Don Goldie trumpeter: Basin Street Blues [vocal by Jack Teagarden]; died Nov 25, 1995 1934 - Hank (Henry Louis) Aaron ‘Hammerin’ Hank’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Milwaukee Braves [all-star: 1955-1965, 1975/World Series: 1957, 1958], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1965-1974]; home run champ [755]: eclipsed Babe Ruth’s record of 714; baseball executive: Atlanta Braves 1941 - David Selby actor: Falcon Crest, Rich and Famous, Flamingo Road 1941 - Barrett Strong singer: Money [That’s What I Want]; songwriter: Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Ball of Confusion 1942 - Roger Staubach Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Cowboys QB: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII; Heisman Trophy Winner: Navy [1963] 1942 - Cory Wells singer: group: Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come, Pieces of April, Celebrate, Joy to the World, Shambalaya 1943 - Craig Morton football: Dallas Cowboys QB: Super Bowl V, VI; Denver Broncos: Super Bowl XII 1943 - Chuck Winfield musician: group: Blood, Sweat & Tears: Hi De Ho 1944 - John Beasley basketball: Texas A&M 1946 - Charlotte Rampling actress: The Verdict, Farewell My Lovely, Georgy Girl 1947 - David Ladd actor: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef, Catlow, Misty, A Dog of Flanders 1947 - Darrell Waltrip auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1989] 1948 - Christopher Guest Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: Lily Tomlin [1976]; comedian: Saturday Night Live 1948 - Barbara Hershey (Herzstein) actress: Hannah and Her Sisters, With Six You Get Eggroll, Beaches, The Right Stuff, The Natural, From Here to Eternity, The Monroes 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh (Morrow) actress: Shortcuts, The Hudsucker Proxy, Single White Female, Rush, Backdraft, Miami Blues, The Big Picture, Easy Money, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Eyes of a Stranger 1964 - Laura Linney actress: Primal Fear, Congo, Absolute Power, The Truman Show, Running Mates, Tales of the City series 1969 - Bobby Brown Grammy Award-winning singer: Every Little Step [1989]; My Prerogative, LP: King of Stage, Don’t be Cruel; married to singer, Whitney Houston Chart Toppers February 5 1948 Golden Earrings - Peggy Lee How Soon - Jack Owens Ballerina - Vaughn Monroe I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold 1956 Rock and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr See You Later, Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets No, Not Much! - The Four Lads Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford 1964 I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles You Don’t Own Me - Leslie Gore Out of Limits - The Marketts Begging to You - Marty Robbins 1972 American Pie - Don McLean Let’s Stay Together - Al Green Day After Day - Badfinger One’s on the Way - Loretta Lynn 1980 Rock with You - Michael Jackson Do that to Me One More Time - The Captain & Tennille Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers I’ll Be Coming Back for More - T.G. Sheppard 1988 Need You Tonight - INXS Could’ve Been - Tiffany Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles Wheels - Restless Heart |
On February 6, 1926, he National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated...
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On February 7, 1985, "Sports Illustrated" released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages...
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On February 8, 1952, Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6...
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On February 9, 1950, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism..."
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On February 10, 1897, "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page...
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On February 11, 1940, NBC radio presented "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street" for the first time...
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On February 12, 1880, the National Croquet League was organized in Philadelphia, PA...
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February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln our 16th President was is born.
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Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet. Here he is with Winston Churchill, then first Lord of the Admiralty. Lorne Greene 1915-1987 broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario in 1915; died at Santa Monica California Sept 11, 1987 after an operation for a perforated ulcer. Greene started his radio career in the 1930s at radio station CBO in Ottawa. During World War II was chief news broadcaster on the CBC from 1939-42, and his sonorous voice earned him the nickname, The Voice of Doom. After starring in a few Hollywood movies - The Silver Chalice (1954), Peyton Place (1957), and The Buccaneer (1958) - he landed the role of patriarch Ben Cartwright in the long-running Western TV series Bonanza (1959-73). Greene even had a Top 100 hit in 1964, when his non-song Ringo hit Number One in the US. He worked on CTV's Lorne Greene's New Wilderness for five years, then starred in two short-lived TV series, Battlestar Galactica and Code Red. Greene Victoria BC - Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Israel/Jordan - Yasser Arafat takes office as the first Palestinian President. |
On February 13, 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members...
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On February 14, 1946, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer...
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On February 15, 1879, U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court...
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On February 16, 1857, The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College...
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Feb 16 1923
Lord Carnarvon opens King Tut's tomb, revealing one of the most well-preserved treasures from the ancient world. While it has been frequently reported that a curse killed 13 of the 20 people present at the opening of the tomb, there was no curse and no unusual death patterns occurred. Feb 16 1959 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/f...del-at-bat.jpg Failed baseball player Fidel Castro is sworn in as President For Life of Cuba. During his first year of rule 500 are put to the firing squad, an RBI record any dictator would be proud of. Feb 16 1978 The first computer bulletin board system goes live on an S-100 motherboard and CP/M, and a Hayes 300 baud modem. Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss's Computerized Bulletin Board System still kinda runs to this day, but the Internet has taken the place that BBS's used to have. And this is why you have no social life, loser. Feb 16 1988 Richard Farley, a man obsessed with the lovely and petite Laura Black, entered his former workplace in Sunnyvale, California, and killed 7 employees as he made his way towards Laura's office. A hearing was scheduled regarding her restraining order against him for the following day. Farley fails in his attempt to kill her, leaving Laura critically wounded. |
On Febryary 17, 1934, the first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA...
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Feb 17 1600
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore in Rome, likely because ecclesiastical authorities were alarmed at his rambling and somewhat insane ideas, coupled with rejection of accepted authority. Exactly what the charges against him were are lost to history, but likely involve theological heresies rather than astronomical. Feb 17 1974 Forty-nine people trampled to death at a soccer stampede in Cairo, after crowds tear down entry barriers to the Zamalek vs Dukla game. Feb 17 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/f...ll-and-ted.jpg The cinematic masterpiece "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened in theaters. Pictured above, Bill and Ted's Excellent Breakfast Cereal. Feb 17 1993 An overcrowded ferry carrying up to 1,500 people sank off Haiti. Only 285 people were known to have survived. Feb 17 1994 The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem. |
On February 18, 1913, the famous French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase", by the French artist, Marcel Duchamp, was displayed at an "Armory Show" in New York City...
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Feb 18 1933
Yoko Ono born. Feb 18 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. Feb 18 1991 Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Feb 18 2001 During the Daytona 500, NASCAR phenom Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall and dies instantly. His widow later files a lawsuit to keep his autopsy photos sealed, and Florida subsequently passes a law to prevent them from ever being released. |
On February 19, 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages...
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Feb 19 1942
Roosevelt signs E.O. 9066, the internment order permitting Japanese Americans to be held in concentration camps for the duration of the war. Feb 19 1969 Marianne Faithfull was found in a coma after a suicide attempt in Australia. Feb 19 1983 Benjamin Ng and Willie Mak kill 13 in a Seattle robbery attempt. Feb 19 1995 Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee married. Watch for the video. Feb 19 1998 Lt. Col. Larry Wayne Harris (Aryan Nations) and William Leavitt are arrested in Henderson, NV for possession of the biological toxin anthrax, military grade, enough to kill an entire city. Their Mercedes is hermetically sealed by authorities and brought to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for hazmat. |
On February 20, 1933, the U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition...
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Feb 20 1947
A chemical mistake at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co. in Los Angeles causes a huge explosion, killing 17 and leaving a 22 foot crater. Four city blocks suffer severe devastation, with over 100 buildings damaged. Feb 20 1971 An erroneous warning is emitted on the Emergency Broadcast System causing a number of stations to go off the air, and others to completely ignore the alert (thus pointing out that many key stations would not react to any emergency broadcast over the system.) Feb 20 1980 After some heavy drinking, Bon Scott, vocalist for heavy metal band AC/DC, is found in a friend's automobile choked on his own vomit. Feb 20 1984 Ballerina Julia Pak marries the ghost of Sun Myung Moon's dead son, Heung Jin Moon, in a tasteful necro-ceremony. The couple were engaged to be married, but a car accident in December intervened. Unfortunately in the Moonie religion, only married couples may enter Heaven, hence the need for this awkward rite. Feb 20 1987 A paper bag at a Salt Lake City computer store explodes, injuring store owner Gary Wright. It is the second time the Unabomber has used the old "paper bag in the parking lot" trick. Feb 20 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/j...age-people.jpg Victor Willis, the "cop" in the Village People is charged in Nevada on drug possession (45 grams of cocaine), possession of drug paraphernalia, and strong armed robbery. The events occurred February 15. Willis, 45, listed his occupation as "unemployed" and generously gave approval for his hotel room to be searched. Feb 20 2003 A fire at a West Warwick, R.I. performance of eighties hairspray legends Great White caused by the band's indoor pyrotechnics leaves 100 dead. The pyrotechnics were illegal in that nightclub venue, and use of them by the band had been forbidden by other local venues. Guitarist Ty Longley is among the dead, his last journal entry containing the words: "I say we send a bunch of bands, food, artists, strippers, bartenders, proctologists, psychologists and lots of love over to Iraq and North Korea for a big party!" |
On February 21, 1975, former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up...
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the peace symbol
http://www.peacesymbol.org/peace_sym...e_symbol_6.gif It was created in Britain on Feb 21, 1958 in advance of a nationwide "ban the bomb" protest against the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by the world's major powers. It has since become the international icon for peace. |
Feb 21 1803
Edward Despard and six co-conspirators were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Horsemonger Lane Gaol for plotting to assassinate England's King George III and to destroy the Bank of England. He is the last person to suffer this punishment. Feb 21 1885 America's greatest phallic symbol, the Washington Monument, is dedicated by President Chester A. Arthur. The shaft towers over 555 into the air, and sports an aluminum foreskin. Feb 21 1916 Start of the Battle of Verdun, which in nine months yielded 975,000 casualties and almost no change in the front line. It is the bloodiest battle in history, and often the one remarked as having the "highest density of dead per square yard." Feb 21 1931 The first attempted hijacking of an airplane occurs when revolutionary soldiers in Peru seize a Ford Tri-motor and demand pilots drop propaganda leaflets over the capital, Lima. Feb 21 1965 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-malcolm-x.jpg Malcolm X assassinated in a Manhattan ballroom, probably by fellow black muslims. Feb 21 1972 Nixon visits Red China, fulfilling the Vulcan proverb. Feb 21 1988 Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart of the Assemblies of God, with tears streaming down his face, confesses sinning with a prostitute in a Louisiana hotel room. A second scandal with yet another prostitute emerges in 1991, further killing his evangelical career. |
On February 22, 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States...
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On February 27, 1827, New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration...
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On February 28, 1854, the Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group...
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On February 29, 1952, in New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians when to walk...
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St. Tibbs Day, inserted between 59 Chaos and 60 Chaos, on the Discordian calendar. Feb 29 1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, was accused of witchcraft in Salem. Feb 29 1960 An Earthquake killed 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec. Also that day, it was hit with a tidal wave and a fire. Feb 29 1960 Melvin Purvis, the G-Man who led the raids when John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd were slain, committed suicide wtih an automatic revolver*. Feb 29 1996 A Peruvian commercial jet caught fire and crashed into remote Andean mountain canyon five miles from its destination, killing all 123 people on board. *WTF is an automatic revolver? |
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On March 1, 1873, E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter...
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On March 2. 1908 , in Paris, Gabriel Lippmann introduced three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences...
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On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th U.S. state...
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On March 4, 1634, Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, MA...
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On March 5, 1770, "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter...
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On March 6, 1967, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery...
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On March 7, 1908, Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith, announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
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On March 8, 1911, in Europe, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time...
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1954 - WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials. The ad was Castro Decorators of New York City.
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On March 10, 1933, Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs...
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On March 11, 1847, John Chapman, 'Johnny Appleseed,' died in Allen County, Indiana. This day became known as Johnny Appleseed Day...
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On March 12, 1985, Larry Bird, of the NBA’s Boston Celtics, scored a club-record 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks...
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ive never even noticed this thread before.
what the hell is wrong with me? pretty interesting stuff. gatta wait 3 days to see what happened to my special day though. |
On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus...
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On March 14, 1914, Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes...
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oh kickass. i knew that the assembly line made the production of cars faster, but i had no idea it was such an increase.
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On March 15, 1820, Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the Union...
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On March 16, 1950, Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine...
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On march 16th...
1802- Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. 1968- The My Lai Massacre occurred in Vietnam. 2006- A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci. 2007- Iraq's new parliament met briefly for the first time; lawmakers took the oath but did no business and adjourned after just 40 minutes. |
1968- The My Lai Massacre occurred in Vietnam.
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Canada's first peacekeepers arrive in Cyprus to help calm tensions between hostile Greek Cypriots and the Turkish minority. 16 March 1704 A French-Indian force attacks and massacres the Massachusetts settlement of Deerfield, resulting in 47 killed and 111 taken prisoner. 16 March 1649 Twelve hundred Iroquois warriors make a dawn raid on the French mission at St. Ignace (just south-east of Midland, Ont.). The Hurons lose 400 men, women, and children for 10 Iroquois killed. |
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On March 17, 1970, the U.S. Army charged 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case...
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On March 18, 1909, Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator...
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1766- After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
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On March 19,1918, the U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time...
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On March 20, 1792, in Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine...
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On March 21, 1826, the Rensselaer School in Troy, NY, was incorporated. The school became known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was the first engineering college in the U.S...
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On March 22, 1894, the first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began. Montreal played Ottawa...
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On March 23, 1972, Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35 cars...
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On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground...
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On March 25, 1901, the Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France...
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On March 26, 1885, Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY...
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On March 27, 1884, the first long-distance telephone call was made from Boston to New York...
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On March 28, 1922, Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device...
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On March 29, 1932, Jack Benny made his radio debut...
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On March 30, 1950, the invention of the phototransistor was announced...
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On March 31, 1831, Quebec and Montreal were incorporated as cities...
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On April 1, 1826, Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine...
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On April 2, 1972, Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine...
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On April 3, 1946, Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines...
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