Today in Sexy Awesome History 5/04/13
![]() 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan. 1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) Have you ever wanted to read about the history of the umbrella? BECAUSE HERE IT IS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella 1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England 1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_A ... d_Sciences 1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus Read more about that here, because it is kinda cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_lunar_phenomenon 1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio 1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal 1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty 1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration 1851 - 1st major SF fire 1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz 1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England. 1861 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast 1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Williamsburg 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church 1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee 1865 - Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders 1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL 1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward's_Gardens 1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan. 1871 - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double 1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph 1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen http://www.history.com/topics/haymarket-riot 1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging Not as goofy as it sounds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steer_wrestling _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1896 - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail HAHA...freaking Daily Mail. Here is a headline generator http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/ Some gems: COULD BINGE DRINKING GIVE BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY DIABETES? HAS TWITTER IMPREGNATED BRITAIN'S SWANS? WILL TEENAGE SEX MAKE HARD-WORKING FAMILIES IMPOTENT? The answer? YES _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal 910 - Tel Aviv founded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv 1912 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes 1915 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany 1916 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare 1917 - Arabs sack Tel Aviv 1918 - Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 1919 - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) 1919 - FVC soccer team forms 1919 - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3 1922 - KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions 1923 - Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna 1923 - NY state revokes Prohibition law 1924 - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France 1924 - German Republic election fascists & communists win 1925 - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage 1926 - General strike hits Britain 1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) 1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 1929 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president 1932 - Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone 1933 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1935 - 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 1936 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1938 - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire 1940 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands 1940 - 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05 1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) 1942 - Food 1st rationed in US 1942 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1943 - NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier 1945 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender 1946 - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay 1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped 1948 - The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 1949 - Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) 1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open Nobel Laureate Author Ernest Hemingway 1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea) 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1956 - Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam 1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1957 - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show 1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam 1958 - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia 1961 - A group of Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals. 1961 - 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/osuaesp/Ne ... eRoad.html 1961 - CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC 1961 - Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 1961 - South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1964 - "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV 1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva 1964 - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 1967 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_4 1970 - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings See the NYT paper: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/sec ... 04_big.gif 1970 - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt 1970 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1973 - 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167415/ 1979 - Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England 1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Sate ... ons_System 1984 - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - US launches Magellan to Venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft) 1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 launched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-30 1990 - Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger 1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Whew...AND THAT WAS TODAY except for the crap that I didn't care about or was really depressing. *passes out*
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