It is Friday! So here is the history of Friday, because I bet you wanted to know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday





1455 - Jews flee Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... s_in_Spain


1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome
1515 - Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz


1616 - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Loudun

1621 - Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 - Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama

1654 - Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals

It had to happen eventually.

1660 - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva

1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hevelius

That guy is called "the father of lunar topography" and described tons of constellations. Why haven't I heard of him before? I love learning new stuff.

1662 - Royal charter granted Connecticut

1678 - French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die

1715 - Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"

Ever heard of that? I bet you HAVEN'T. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily's_beads


Statesman/Philosopher Francis Bacon 1722 - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1791 - The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

1808 - Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"

1810 - Lord Byron swims Hellespont

Why? Why the hell not?

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... hellespont


1815 - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 - 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1837 - The University of Athens is founded.

1845 - 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Bolling_Allen

1845 - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.

1851 - Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die

http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fire ... _1851.html

1855 - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861 - Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in US Civil War
1861 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen

1863 - Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg - one of the most one-sided battles of the Civil War. The Union lost more than twice that of the Confederates.

1863 - Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 - 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1886 - M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1898 - Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1900 - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25

1901 - Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1901

one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the largest urban fire in the Southeastern United States.

1902 - 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 - AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2

1916 - The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising


1917 - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1921 - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 - Salt layer find at Winterswijk

1923 - 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed

http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/g ... tary04.cfm


1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
1926 - British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1929 - Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 - 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 - 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 - Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
1936 - French People's Front wins elections

1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"


1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
1938 - Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1941 - -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1941 - 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1942 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 - Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 - Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1944 - Meat rationing ends in US
1945 - 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 - British troop join in Rangoon
1945 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cap_Arcona_(1927)

1946 - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8

1947 - Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams

1949 - 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_(rocket)

1951 - Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 - NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.

1952 - "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 - 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 - 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 - WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
1954 - KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 - WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1956 - A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1956 - Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in NYC
1958 - 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 - Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
Singer Tom Jones 1960 - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC

1960 - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.annefrank.org/

and where Justin Beiber would act like a tool: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/showbiz/bieber-anne-frank


1961 - Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 - Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational

1965 - 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite

1965 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 - Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH
1965 - KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1968 - Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl

1969 - 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 - All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 - National Public Radio begins programming

1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)

1973 - Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower

1978 - "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1978 - Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II

1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

1982 - NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget

1982 - Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 - Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 - Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"

1986 - NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-G


1994 - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins

I like Garth Brooks. Sue me.

1994 - US space probe Clementine launched

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)

1997 - Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)

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Whew...long day today. Enjoy or whatever!