Showing posts with label inventions. Show all posts
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SMELLS LIKE SUICIDE
1994 Kurt Cobain grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27.
WAR!
1862 Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1945 During World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.
2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi ruler.
TERRORISM
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis.
DISASTER
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA).
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma.
OUCH!
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose.
OOOPS!
1966 The U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.
UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party.
WOW!
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 seconds.
PRO WRESTLING
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in Los Angeles CA, actually performed 03/24.
NANNY STATE
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment.
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years.
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
WIMPS
1978 President Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.
INVENTIONS
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches.
BIG OIL
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
ROCKETS
2007 A Russian rocket carrying American billionaire Charles Simonyi roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan, sending its three occupants on a trip to the international space station.
JEWS
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil.
1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service.
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time.
TV
1927 An audience in New York watched as the image as well as voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
TROLLEYS
1957 Shortly after midnight, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
I GOT YOU
1998 Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.
BORN
1860 W K Kellogg - the original corn flake.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor R.G. Armstrong is 91. Sitar player Ravi Shankar is 88. Actor James Garner is 80. Country singer Cal Smith is 76. Actor Wayne Rogers is 75. Media commentator Hodding Carter III is 73. Country singer Bobby Bare is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer Charlie Thomas (The Drifters) is 71. Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard is 70. California Attorney General Jerry Brown is 70. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 69. TV personality David Frost is 69. Singer Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons) is 61. Singer John Oates is 59. Singer Janis Ian is 57. Country musician John Dittrich is 57. Actor Jackie Chan is 54. Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 54. Actor Russell Crowe is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Mark Kibble (Take 6) is 44. Actor Bill Bellamy is 43. Rock musician Dave "Yorkie" Palmer (Space) is 43. Former football player-turned-analyst Tiki Barber is 33. Actress Heather Burns is 33. Actor Conner Rayburn is 9.
DEATH
30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer).
1891 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80.
2007 "B.C." comic strip creator Johnny Hart died in Nineveh, N.Y., at age 76.
2007 Actor Barry Nelson died in Bucks County, Pa., at age 89.
April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year.
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* Today in History
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* DBKP Today in Weird History: April 7 2008
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ICONS
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
WAR!
2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.
DISASTER
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.
1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).
ATTEMPTS
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.
PATENTS
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.
DEALS
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
CLIMATE
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.
INVENTIONS
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.
ASSASSINATION
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.
NAZIS
1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.
1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.
TRIALS
1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.
SCIENCE
1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.
1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
JEWS
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.
MURDER
1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.
RESIGNING
1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.
2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.
TRAGEDY
1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.
ABORTION
2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.
BORN
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).
1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.
BIRTHDAYS
Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.
DEATH
1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.
1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.
Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.
compiled by Mondoreb
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