Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
KIDNAPPED!
1932 Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
WAR!
1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians.
2003 Iraq began complying with orders from U.N. weapons inspectors to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles. The United Arab Emirates called for Saddam Hussein to step down, the first Arab country to do so publicly. Turkey's parliament dealt a stunning blow to U.S. war planning by failing to approve a bill allowing in American combat troops to open a northern front against Iraq.
TERRORISM
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1981 Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
2003 Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents.
DISASTER
1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history.
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95.
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada).
1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees.
2007 Tornadoes killed 20 people in the Midwest and Southeast, including eight students at Enterprise High School in Alabama.
CUISINE
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain.
IRONIC
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War.
GRAVE ROBBERS
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
UPSETS
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.
GERONIMO!
1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane.
MYSTERY SHIP
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again.
WRONG ASSESSMENTS
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt returns from the Yalta conference and pronounces to Congress that it's a success.
CLIMATE CHANGE
1980 Snow falls in Florida.
CULTS
1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor.
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return.
BLUELIGHT SPECIAL
1962 K-Mart opens.
UNREST
1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die.
PANIC
1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks.
LEVIATHAN
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut).
1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years.
1994 Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England.
DEATH PENALTY
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state).
WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS
2007 An independent commission concluded the National Guard and Reserves weren't getting enough money or equipment.
CREDIT
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.
SPIES
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London).
MARRIAGE
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed.
CALENDARS
1 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome.
WATERGATE
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides.
EXECUTED
1947 J Boogaard Nazi collaborator in the Netherlands, executed.
POLITICS
1781 the Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.
1790 President Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state.
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas.
1867 Nebraska became the 37th state.
1967 U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York, accused of misconduct, was denied his seat in the 90th Congress. (The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell had to be seated.)
CITIES
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city.
LABOR
1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day.
MURDER
1995 Vladislav Listyev Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38.
NAZIS
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp.
CIVIL RIGHTS
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only).
1864 Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
JEWS
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews.
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided.
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48.
BLOODBATHS
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows the murder of 1200 Huguenots.
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500.
PARKS
1872 President Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park.
STAMPS
1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time.
SCANDAL
2007 The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
BORN
1904 Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood).
1911 Harry Golombek chess grandmaster.
1917 Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Robert Clary is 82. Singer Harry Belafonte is 81. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 81. Actor Robert Conrad is 73. Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) is 64. Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., is 64. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 64. Actor Dirk Benedict is 63. Actor Alan Thicke is 61. Actor-director Ron Howard is 54. Actress Catherine Bach is 54. Country singer Janis Gill (AKA Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 54. Actor Tim Daly is 52. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 51. Rock musician Bill Leen is 46. Actor Russell Wong is 45. Actor John David Cullum is 42. Actor George Eads is 41. Actor Javier Bardem is 39. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 35. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 34. Actor Jensen Ackles is 30. TV host Donovan Patton is 30. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme is 27. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sammie is 21.
DEATH
1991 Edwin H Land inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81.
March 1, the 61st day of 2008. There are 305 days left in the year.
by Mondoreb
image: oregonlive
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
THIEF!
1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo).
WAR!
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK.
1973 Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.
TERRORISM
2003 The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.
2007 Car bombs shattered Baghdad's oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.
DISASTERS
1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt.
FIREBALL
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia.
CLINTONS
1998 A federal judge threw out President Clinton's new line-item veto authority.
1999 The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.
STARTS
1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop.
BUSTED
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs.
OJ
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment.
VIETNAM
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam.
PATENTS
1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358).
RECORDS
1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m.
TABLOID
1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose.
CLASH
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech.
JEWS
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".
BEHEADED
1554 Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.
FREE
1818 Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.
MURDER
1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37.
WOMEN
1870 women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. (However, that right was taken away in 1887).
RACE
1908 the first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)
CIVIL RIGHTS
1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
ABDICATE
1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.
MEMORIALS
1915 the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.
COMICS
1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.
GUNMAN
2007 Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shot nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he was shot and killed by police.
BORN
1809 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.
1880 John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).
1904 Ted Mack Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour).
BIRTHDAYS
Movie director Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Actor Louis Zorich is 84. Baseball Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is 78. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell is 74. Actor Joe Don Baker is 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Rock musician Ray Manzarek (The Doors) is 69. Country singer Moe Bandy is 64. Actress Maud Adams is 63. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 63. Actor Michael Ironside is 58. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 58. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 56. Actress Joanna Kerns is 55. Actor-former talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53. Actress Christine Elise is 43. Actor Josh Brolin is 40. Singer Chynna Phillips is 40. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues musician Keri Lewis is 37. Actor Jesse Spencer ("House, M.D.") is 29. Actress Sarah Lancaster is 28. Actress Christina Ricci is 28.
DEATH
1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.
2003 Holiday Inn chain founder Kemmons Wilson died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 90.
February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: charleroi
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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