| Re: This day in history |
EasyNews, UseNet made Ea .. |
| ::darkshadows:: (over@bite.net) |
2007/11/22 11:04 |
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:33:27 GMT, "Rolex" <rolex@astraweb.com> wrote:
>Day in History November 19
>
>
>Events
>
>Events: 1493: Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second
>voyage to the New World.
>
Everyone makes a wrong turn once in a while.
Just kidding.
>Events: 1620: The Mayflower arrived off the coast of Cape Cod. Peregrine
>White was born aboard the Mayflower.
>
What, Columbus was fooling around with the maidens aboard ship?
>Events: 1794: United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty.
>
Jay Leno was alive then?
>Events: 1861: Julia Ward Howe wrote 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while
>visiting Union troops near Washington.
>
>Events: 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and
>dedicated a Civil War battlefield cemetery in Pennsylvania.
>
>Events: 1874: The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in
>Cleveland, Ohio.
>
And man has been in trouble ever since!
>Events: 1919: Utah's Mukuntuweap National Monument, later called Zion
>National Monument, was established as a national park.
>
>Events: 1939: The first presidential library, that of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
>had its cornerstone laid at Hyde Park, New York.
>
And Jekyll won't tell us where.
>Events: 1942: The Soviet Union Red Army launched Operation Uranus, the great
>counter-offensive that turned the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad.
>
Operation Uranus..... NO COMMENT. Heh-heeeeeeee
>Events: 1949: Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier
>III, the 30th monarch of Monaco.
>
>Events: 1954: The first automatic toll collection machine went into effect
>at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.
>
>Events: 1969: Ford Motor Company announced it was halting production of the
>unpopular Edsel.
>
>Events: 1969: Pele scored his 1000th soccer goal in his 909th first-class
>match.
>
>Events: 1969: U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan Bean became the
>third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the Moon after their
>landing module, Intrepid, touched down as part of the Apollo 12 mission.
>
>Events: 1976: Patty Hearst was released from prison on $1.5 million bail.
>
>Events: 1977: Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat became the first Arab leader
>to visit Israel.
>
>Events: 1985: At a summit in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet
>leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time.
>
And it was love at first sight.
>Events: 1990: The pop duo Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award
>because other singers sung the songs on their 'Girl You Know It's True'
>album.
>
>Events: 1993: The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the North American Free
>Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
>
Typical behavior of the inhabitants of D.C.
>Events: 1996: A fire broke out in the Channel Tunnel, injuring 34 people and
>interrupting rail service.
>
>Events: 1998: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr presented evidence against
>President Bill Clinton while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee
>
Good ole Slick Willie.
>
>Have a happy thanksgiving
>Rolex
>"May Dragons Fly Ever in your Dreams"
>
and a gobble-gobble to you too!
darkshadows
|
|
|