On this day in history...
 

John Wayne was born May 26th, 1907. Happy 100th birthday to an American icon and the greatest actor of all time. :thumbsup:

451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practise Christianity.

In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan...

Are we going to talk about John Wayne or are we just gonna continue to utter coincidental and inconconsequential trivia marked by actions upon date on the calendar?

probably...

I dunno. Which makes less sense? I personally don't know to much about the Duke... I know his nickname was his dogs name and he smoked alot... But those damn Avarayrians. They where really something.

Wait, is there a difference?

He certainly had the machismo thing going for him. Greatest actor of all time? Not so much.

Hmm...

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=4462&rendTypeId=4The Winter Palace, with the Alexander Column in the foreground, Palace Square, St. Petersburg.

Today in 1703: Founding of St. Petersburg
Founded this day in 1703 by Peter the Great, St. Petersburg has played a vital role in Russian history and is especially known as the scene of the 1917 revolutions and as a fiercely defended city during World War II.

I appreciate this little factoid for the reason that the sister city of St. Petersburg in Russia happens to be the place I grew up in, which is of course St. Petersburg, Florida. A very loosely-held together connection, but a tie nonetheless.

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The Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida



What do you find most interesting about today?

On this day, May 27, in 1933, Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released...

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On this date in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to the public in San Francisco, California. At its completion, it was the world's longest suspension bridge, a record previously held by the George Washington Bridge in New York City, and would keep that record until 1964, when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn was built. Currently, the record for the world's longest suspension bridge is held by the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in southern Japan near the city of Kobe.

On May 28, 1957, the National League gave permission for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco...

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1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle.

I was wondering why there were so many John Wayne movies on TV this weekend.

On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union...

Today's Celebratory Birthday goes to --> John F. Kennedy (1917-1963): the youngest man elected to the presidency

On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France...

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On May 31, 1961, South Africa became an independent republic...

June 1

Union Square is two blocks from my place:

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The annual parade of "New York's Finest" was filmed on June 1, 1899, in Union Square. At the turn of the century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was still recovering from scandals and allegations of corruption that tarnished its reputation in the 1890s. Four years earlier, the New York State Senate created a committee to investigate the department. The Lexow Committee issued a scathing report detailing serious criminal activity within the organization.

Police Parade, New York, New York,
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., June 1, 1899.
Life of a City: New York, 1898-1906

June 1st, 1926

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On this day, the late Marilyn Monroe was born. :)

The Pier! I love The Pier! I was down there about a month ago, such a beautiful place. Before then I hadn't been to The Pier in about 7 years. Jet, downtown St. Pete has changed A LOT.

On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was crowned Queen Consort of England...

June 2
 

Spotlight: Grover Cleveland became the first president to be married in the White House when he and Frances Folsom wed on this date in 1886. Cleveland was 49 and Folsom 21 at the time. Folsom was the daughter of Cleveland's former law partner; when his friend died, Cleveland remained close with the Folsom family and corresponded with Frances when she reached adulthood. The Clevelands' first child (of 5) was named Ruth and was said to be the inspiration for the name of the Baby Ruth candy bar.

Quote: "Some day I will be better remembered." — Grover Cleveland, after being snubbed by a group of law associates before he entered politics

Today in History:

• P.T. Barnum began his first circus tour (1835)
  
• Native Americans were granted US citizenship (1924)
  
• Queen Elizabeth the II is crowned in London's Westminster Abbey(1953)
  
• "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
  Lou Gehrig dies of the degenerative disease that now carries his name. (1941)

An aside, Esoteric: Has downtown St. Pete really changed that much. I myself haven't been there in a span of 8 years now. I'd love to see how it looks now, hopefully changing for the better. :)

On June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing...

IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY...........SGT PEPPER'S WAS RELEASED IN THE USA..... AND IT STILL THRIVES, KICKS ASS AND IS AS BEAUTIFUL AN ALBUM AS EVER!!!!!!!

(and I was born 2 days later and I am still thriving, kicking ass and doing beautiful work helping others .......)

That last post scared me out of my wits!

But it is a surperb album, if not the greatest(arguably), ever made.

Check the list.

If by American Icon you mean Racist...

June 3
 

Spotlight: The bad news is that, in spite of all the money and effort poured into the fight against cancer, a miracle cure for the disease has not yet been found. The good news is that many medications have been found to cure certain kinds of cancer and to extend the lives of those fighting the disease, giving them hope for a cure to be found in their lifetime. Today is the 20th National Cancer Survivors Day, conceived by a cancer survivor and his wife to show that many people live with cancer and many others beat the disease.



Today's Birthday:
Rafael Nadal (21): young Spanish tennis champ

Bell's Photophone
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Alexander Graham Bell (detail),
Timoléon Lobrichon, artist,
photoprint of 1882 painting.
Prints and Photographs Division

On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone from the top of the Franklin School in Washington, D.C.

On June 3, 1098, Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey...

June 4th - Congress Approves Nineteenth Amendment

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Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
After the 36th State Ratified,
1920.
Prints and Photograph Division

On June 4, 1919, Congress, by joint resolution, approved the woman's suffrage amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The House of Representatives had voted 304-89 and the Senate 56-25 in favor of the amendment.

Disagreement on whether the best strategy was to pursue enfranchisement through a federal amendment or by individual state campaigns had divided the women's suffrage movement in 1869. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked for a federal amendment under the banner of the National Woman Suffrage Association, while Lucy Stone led the American Woman Suffrage Association's state-by-state battle for the vote.

In 1890, the two groups united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). NAWSA combined both techniques to secure voting rights for all American women. A series of well-orchestrated state campaigns took place under the dynamic direction of Carrie Chapman Catt, while the new National Woman's Party, led by Alice Paul, used more militant tactics to obtain a federal amendment.

In his 1916 book Woman's Suffrage By Constitutional Amendment, Congressman Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia argued that enfranchising women by constitutional amendment would violate the Constitution:

For three-fourths of the States to attempt to compel the other one-fourth of the States of the Union, by constitutional amendment, to adopt a principle of suffrage believed to be inimical to their institutions, because they may believe it to be of advantage to themselves and righteous as a general doctrine, would be to accomplish their end by subverting a principle which has been recognized from the adoption of the Constitution of the United States to this day, viz., that the right of suffrage — more properly the privilege of suffrage — is a State privilege, emanating from the State, granted by the State, and that can be curtailed alone by the State.
Henry St. George Tucker, Woman's Suffrage By Constitutional Amendment, 4.
Votes for Women, 1848-1921

Henry Wade Rogers, a Yale University law professor, offered a different perspective in "Federal Action and State Rights," an essay within the 1917 collection Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt. He argued that previous constitutional amendments set a precedent for the demands of suffragists:

…the Fifteenth Amendment provides that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude…" If woman suffrage is a sound principle in a republican form of government, and such I believe it to be, there is in my opinion no reason why the States should not be permitted to vote upon an Amendment to the Constitution declaring that no citizen shall be deprived of the right to vote on account of sex.
Henry Wade Rogers, "Federal Action and State Rights" in Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, 67.
Votes for Women, 1848-1921

Rogers's position prevailed. Women's active participation in the war effort during World War I and their broadening role in society highlighted the injustice of their political powerlessness. On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.

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Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow Signing the Anthony Amendment,
January 6, 1920.
By Popular Demand:"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Search in the American Memory collection Votes for Women, 1848-1921 on constitutional amendment to retrieve additional documents outlining arguments for and against the suffrage amendment. Also, read NAWSA's final report on the voting rights campaign. With ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, its work concluded and the association was reorganized as the League of Women Voters.
Images related to the suffrage movement are available in Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920. View the timeline entitled One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage.
Other collections that document the suffrage movement include Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party.
Today in History features on the suffrage era include:
the 1854 Ohio Woman's Rights Convention,
the 1869 decision granting women voting rights in the Wyoming Territory,
Carrie Burnham's 1884 pro-suffrage argument before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Has nobody yet wished you a Happy Birthday, Pan? I was going to do it about 6 hours prior, but I thought it best to wait because I thought it would be most fitting if Lady Sage did the honors.

Well, here's to the Happiest 40th Birthday to you and all those that truly care for you, Pan!!!



Psst... I was tipped off by your earlier post ;)

She refuses to start threads.... have no idea why, but she is stubborn and just won't

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!

On June 4, 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam...

On this day in history, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers in Operation Anthropoid.

This is just getting more and more obscure. :hmm:

Would you rather us tell you something you knew :lol:

One this day in history, Michael Hamofsky drafts an idea onto paper detailing a possible seperation of the American colonies from England. He misplaces it at the bar he wrote it at later that night. One month later it resurfaces in the hands of Thomas Jefferson, and is signed by the continental congress.

On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel after claiming victory in California's Democratic Primary...