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05/19/2006 10:33:12 AM · #126 |
| May 19, 1925: Malcolm X (nee Little) is born in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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05/22/2006 10:38:31 AM · #127 |
May 22
1843: The Great Emigration begins a 2,000-mile journey, departing for Oregon from Independence, MO. The wagon train is composed of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle. The wagon train arrived in Oregon in October.
1849: Becoming the first US president to earn a patent, Abraham Lincoln receives a patent for buoying boats over shoals, an idea that used inflated cylinders to float grounded ships through shallow water.
1899: Charles Shanks, a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer borrows the French word "automobile" in an article he writes about a road trip with car magnate Alexander Winton from Cleveland to New York City.
1906: Orville and Wilbur Wright receive the first airplane-related patent in the United States for "new and useful improvements in Flying Machines."
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05/23/2006 10:56:54 AM · #128 |
May 23
1911: The New York Public Library, which already amassed a collection of more than 1 million books, is dedicated during a ceremony including President William Howard Taft. The building cost $9 million and took 14 years to complete.
1940: As his first number one hit, Frank Sinatra croons "I'll Never Smile Again" with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1962: Doctors Donald Malt and J. McKhann transplant the first human limb at Massachusetts General Hospital when they replace a 12-year-old boy's right arm.
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05/24/2006 10:23:17 AM · #129 |
May 24
1883: Linking Manhattan and Brooklyn for the first time, the Brooklyn Bridge (the largest suspension bridge at the time) opens after 14 years of construction.
1899: The Back Bay Cycle and Motor Company of Boston opens the first public parking garage in the United States.
1929: The Marx brothers' antics hit the silver screen for the first time with the opening of The Cocoanuts.
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05/25/2006 11:38:44 AM · #130 |
May 25
1660: Called the English Restoration, Charles II returned to Dover, England, to regain the throne after 11 years of military rule.
1787: Faced with a union that would crumble if the Articles of Confederation weren't amended, the Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia with 55 delegates including Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and George Washington.
1977: Star Wars opens to go on to become one of the biggest, box office record�breaking movies of all time.
1992: The late-night TV reins change hands when Jay Leno replaces Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show.
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05/26/2006 05:19:07 PM · #131 |
May 26
1781: Congress approves the creation of a national bank, which Robert Morris proposed and modeled after the Bank of England.
1897: Horror classic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker goes on sale in London.
1907: John Wayne is born as Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, IA. Nicknamed "Duke" as a boy, the Western film star would appear in 250 films and earn an Oscar for his role in True Grit.
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05/29/2006 03:14:23 PM · #132 |
May 29
1922: The US Supreme Court rules that major league baseball is a sport and not a business and not subject to antitrust laws.
1953: Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepal Sherpa, summit Mount Everest, 29,035 above sea level, the highest point on Earth.
1982: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the Canterbury Cathedral in England.
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!
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05/30/2006 10:33:36 AM · #133 |
May 30
1431: Joan of Arc becomes a martyr when she's burned at the stake for heresy.
1911: With an average speed of 74.6 mph, Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500.
1971: Mars space probe Mariner 9 launches from Cape Kennedy, FL. The spacecraft orbited Mars, eventually taking photos of the entire Martian surface.
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05/30/2006 12:28:19 PM · #134 |
| American horse, where are you finding all this good stuff? |
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05/30/2006 12:52:57 PM · #135 |
Originally posted by C-Fox:
American horse, where are you finding all this good stuff? |
The internet.
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05/31/2006 10:16:48 AM · #136 |
May 31
1578: The Catacombs of Rome, which were the burial grounds of early Christians, and hidden since about the 3rd century, are unearthed.
1759: In response to pressure from religious organizations, Pennsylvania lawmakers forbid the performance of plays and would fine offenders 500 pounds.
1870: Edward de Smedt patents sheet asphalt pavement, also known as French asphalt pavement. The first pavement was laid on William Street in Newark, NJ.
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06/01/2006 10:50:57 AM · #137 |
June 1
1880: The first pay telephone rings into service at the Yale Bank Building at State and Chapel Streets in New Haven, CT. Originally, tolls are given to an attendant.
1949: Lawrence Welk's radio and television career begins when he and his orchestra play on the High Life Review radio show.
1961: The Federal Communications Commission receives its first notifications that stations will begin broadcasting in FM stereo.
1967: The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which would go on to sell more than 8 million copies and spend 15 weeks at number one.
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06/02/2006 10:56:23 AM · #138 |
June 2
1873: Construction begins on the first cable-powered railroad in San Francisco. The system use underground wire rope, which a car could attach or release to be pulled.
1953: Twenty-seven-year-old Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of United Kingdom in Westminster Abbey in London.
2004: A rare sturgeon measuring about 2.75 meters long and weighing more than 120 kg is caught off the coast of Wales. A 14th century British law required that the fisherman Robert Davies offer the fish to the Crown. The sturgeon eventually is donated to the Natural History Museum in London.
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06/05/2006 11:34:31 AM · #139 |
June 5
1783: The first hot air balloon to fly takes to the skies over the French town of Annonay. Created by brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, the balloon stays aloft for 10 minutes.
1951: The first convertible is patented by Gordon Buehrig, and his design would become the T-top on the 1968 Corvette Stingray.
1956: With his infamous hip gyrations, Elvis wows the audience on The Milton Berle Show when he sings "Hound Dog."
1977: The Apple II becomes the first personal computer to go on sale. It came with 64KB standard memory.
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06/05/2006 12:25:22 PM · #140 |
Originally posted by American_Horse:
June 2
1873: Construction begins on the first cable-powered railroad in San Francisco. The system use underground wire rope, which a car could attach or release to be pulled.
1953: Twenty-seven-year-old Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of United Kingdom in Westminster Abbey in London. |
Both of which seem to still be fully operational, though there is little doubt about which is more expensive to maintain ... the sturgeon -- I suspect -- is no longer operational : ( |
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06/06/2006 10:44:24 AM · #141 |
June 6
1683: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, becomes the first British museum (and maybe the first in the world) to open to the public.
1933: Americans pull into the first drive-in at Camden, NJ, which had 10 acres and space for 400 cars.
1944: D-Day marks start of Europe invasion. Thousands of Allied troops are landing on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.
1949: Big Brother becomes a literary icon with the publication of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1966: Black civil rights activist shot James Meredith, the first black man to brave the colour bar at the University of Mississippi, is shot in the back and legs while on a civil rights march.
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06/07/2006 10:31:19 AM · #142 |
June 7
1893: Mohandas K. Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience by refusing to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train. He's thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg.
1914: The Panama Canal has its first traffic as the Alliance passes through the locks.
1954: The Edsel is born as Ford Motor Company forms the design team for the new car during the automobile manufacturer's heyday.
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06/08/2006 10:42:15 AM · #143 |
June 8
1869: Ives W. McGaffney from Chicago obtains the first American patent for a vacuum cleaner.
1873: Congress authorizes the first US post card. It was a light buff card about 3 inches by 5 inches with a 1 cent stamp printed in the upper right corner.
1968: Alan Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
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06/09/2006 10:21:25 AM · #144 |
June 9
1534: Jacques Cartier, a French navigator commissioned by King Francis I of France, becomes the first European to travel the St. Lawrence River in what is today Quebec, Canada.
1822: Although there had been other types of dentures beforehand, Charles Graham receives the first patent for false teeth.
1973: As the first horse in 25 years to accomplish the feat, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown with a victory at Belmont Stakes, after already notching the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.
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06/13/2006 12:40:11 AM · #145 |
June 12
1898: Ending 300 years of Spanish rule, the Philippines declare independence during the Spanish-American War.
1963: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in Cleopatra, which premieres at New Yorks Rivoli Theater.
1979: In an aviation first, the Gossamer Albatross with pilot and powerhouse cyclist Bryan Allen, becomes the first solely human-powered aircraft to fly across the English Channel.
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06/13/2006 10:34:42 AM · #146 |
June 13
1912: US Army Captain Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump from an airplane.
1970: "The Long and Winding Road" foreshadows the end of the road for the Beatles as the groups last number one song.
1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system, becoming the first terrestrial object to venture past our solar system.
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06/13/2006 10:35:48 AM · #147 |
Originally posted by American_Horse:
June 13
1912: US Army Captain Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump from an airplane.
1970: "The Long and Winding Road" foreshadows the end of the road for the Beatles as the groups last number one song.
1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system, becoming the first terrestrial object to venture past our solar system. |
1980 -- karmat's little sister was born (6 weeks premature) on Friday, June 13, an appropriate foreshadowing of what was to come . . .:) |
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06/13/2006 11:41:06 AM · #148 |
Originally posted by karmat:
1980 -- karmat's little sister was born (6 weeks premature) on Friday, June 13, an appropriate foreshadowing of what was to come . . .:) |
26 is she? So that makes you.......?(giggleing)
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06/14/2006 09:05:38 PM · #149 |
June 14
1777: The Continental Congress approves the use of thirteen alternating stripes of red and white with a blue field of 13 stars as the national flag.
1884: New York state law requires that utility wires be run underground in any incorporated city with a population of more than 500,000.
1951: As the great grandfather of your handheld organizer, UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), the worlds first commercially digital computer, is dedicated by the US Census Bureau.
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06/14/2006 09:22:12 PM · #150 |
14th. June 1950.....
Sherryl Johnston was born the fourth child to Alf and Mavis Raynor, on this day the 14yh. June 1950.
She was a much love child, but medically was not supposed to survive. Her dear parents were told that she would be in a instituation, or not live beyond 11 years of age.
She was born with "Dwarfsism" or "short stature". She also suffered a stroke down her right side of her face during her difficult birth, and also had fluid on the brain.
She overcome all these obstacles, with the wonderful support of her family. She is today 56 year old, very happerly married, and has two adult children.
She absolutely loves life, and every day is the best day of her life.....
Thank you DPCm for helping me be the person I am today..... |
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