Showing posts with label TOMBS. Show all posts
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WAR!
1862 during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant.")
1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.
1945 American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.
TERRORISM
1992 Abbas Musawi leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
2007 An Italian judge indicted 25 suspected CIA agents and a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect. (The proceedings have been suspended pending a ruling on the Italian government's request to throw out the indictments.)
DISASTER
1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200.
1996 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Md.
1998 A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R trying to land in fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board and six people on the ground.
SNEEZE
600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.
WOMEN
1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.
TRAFFIC
1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France.
BLIMPS
1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue.
CLUBS
1905 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston.
NAZIS
1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22.
PATENTS
1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree.
1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers.
PIRATES!
1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
DOORS
1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY).
BEATLES
1968 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
JEWS
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland.
1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid.
SWIM
1963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
CHECKS
1659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey).
LEVIATHAN
1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized.
DEATH PENALTY
1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty.
RADICALS
1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage.
DEMONSTRATION
2003 More than 100,000 people demonstrated in the streets of San Francisco to protest a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC.
1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS.
EXECUTED
1979 Nematullah Nassiri Iran General/head of Savak, executed.
DEMOCRATS
2007 The Democratic-controlled House issued a symbolic rejection of President Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq, approving the nonbinding resolution by a vote of 246-182.
SOCIETIES
1868 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.
TOMBS
1923 The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
DICTATORS
1959 Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
ELECTROCUTED
1936 Tommy Ward South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted.
911
1968 the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.
RAMPAGE
1988, Seven people were shot to death during an office rampage in Sunnyvale, Calif., by a man who was obsessed with a co-worker. (The gunman, Richard Farley, is under sentence of death.)
SPORTS
2003 Michael Waltrip raced past leader Jimmie Johnson to win the rain-shortened Daytona 500 for the second time in three years.
BORN
1903 Edgar Bergen Chicago IL, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy).
1906 Vera Menchik Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champion (1927).
BIRTHDAYS
Singer Patty Andrews is 90. Kim Jong Il, the president of North Korea, is 66. Actor Jeremy Bulloch is 62. Actor Pete Postlethwaite is 62. Actor William Katt is 57. Actor LeVar Burton is 51. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 50. Actress Lisa Loring is 50. Tennis Hall of Fame player John McEnroe is 49. Rock musician Andy Taylor is 47. Rock musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is 43. Rock musician Taylor Hawkins (Foofighters) is 36. Singer Sam Salter is 30. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 26. Actor Mike Weinberg is 15.
DEATH
1977 Janani Luwum, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.
2003 Eleanor "Sis" Daley, the matriarch of Chicago's Daley political clan, died at age 95.
February 16, the 47th day of 2008. There are 319 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: clangrant
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
NUKES
1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb.
WAR!
1942 Hitler's Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled.
1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die.
1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die.
1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
2007 With Democrats in control, House members debated Iraq in an emotional and historic faceoff over a war that Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned as a commitment with "no end in sight."
TERRORISM
2003 A U.S. government plane carrying four Americans and a Colombian went down in rebel territory in southern Colombia; the executed bodies of an American and the Colombian were found in the wreckage.
DISASTER
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200.
MAN-EATERS
1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi.
TOMBS
1924 King Tut's tomb opened.
OUTLAWS
1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty MO ($15,000).
RIOT
1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour.
GOLF
1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2.
TOYS
1959 Barbie doll goes on sale.
IMPRISONED
1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words.
RIGGED
2002 The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
MUSIC
1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week.
EDUCATION
1795 The University of North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus for two weeks.
PATENTS
1895 Moving picture projector patented.
POLITICS
2007 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially entered the 2008 presidential race in Michigan, the place of his birth.
FINANCE
1973 US dollar devalues 10%.
1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier.
INTRO
1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang".
TRIALS
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant.
2003 Clara Harris, who'd run down her cheating husband with her Mercedes after catching him with his mistress, was convicted by a Houston jury of murder despite her claim that she'd hit him accidentally while in a heartsick daze. (Harris was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
JEWS
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland.
1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council.
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
SPORTS
1974 James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame.
BEHEADED
1542 Catherine Howard queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded.
BORN
1766 Thomas Malthus Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer/population expert (Law of Malthus).
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill England, politician, Winston's father.
1875 Kanouse quintuplets Watertown WI, 1st quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse.
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker).
BIRTHDAYS
Former test pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager is 85. Actress Kim Novak is 75. Actor George Segal is 74. Actress Carol Lynley is 66. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 66. Actress Stockard Channing is 64. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 64. Actor Bo Svenson is 64. Singer Peter Gabriel is 58. Actor David Naughton is 57. Rock musician Peter Hook is 52. Actor Matt Salinger is 48. Singer Henry Rollins is 47. Actor Neal McDonough is 42. Singer Freedom Williams is 42. Actress Kelly Hu is 40. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 36. Singer Robbie Williams is 34. Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart (Floetry) is 29. Actress Mena Suvari is 29.
DEATH
1980 David Janssen [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49.
1982 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17.
2003 Walt W. Rostow, an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died in Austin, Texas, at age 86.
February 13, the 44th day of the year. There are 322 days left in 2008.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: thevintageplayhouse
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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